Telling : new and selected stories / Evelyn Conlon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conlon, Evelyn.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

218 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Belfast : Blackstaff, 2000.

Summary:

Presenting nine completely new stories by Evelyn Conlon alongside ten of the best of her previously published tales, Telling is a triumphant demonstration of the achievement and the continuing dynamism of one of Ireland's most boldly original writers. Evelyn Conlon's characters experience at first hand the infuriating way life defies all our attempts to control it: a PR man loses his professional self-assurance; a chance encounter with an ex-lover leaves a woman with an unnerving sense of the emptiness of her marriage; a young man suddenly finds himself the underdog in his lifelong struggle with his twin brother. Such bleak moments of self-discovery are counterpointed with stories of characteristically wry humour, with Conlon poking fun at self-appointed creative artists and uncovering with deft irony the double standards that continue to bedevil dealings between men and women everywhere.

Contents:

A night out 1

Telling 17

The sound of twin 22

The park 31

Taking scarlet as a real colour, or And also, Susan 45

The long drop 58

A little remote 67

The tour 82

According to Michael 94

The undeathing of Gertrude 103

Two good times 112

On the inside of cars 118

Furthermore, Susan 130

Beatrice 137

Birth certificates 152

Petty crime 179

Park-going days 193

The last confession 202

Escaping the Celtic Tiger, world music and the millennium 212.

ISBN:

0856406732

OCLC:

44397753