Midwife to the fairies : new and selected stories / Éilís Ní Dhuibhne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ní Dhuibhne, Éilís, 1954-

Language:

English

Genre:

Short stories.

Physical Description:

xvii, 162 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cork : Attic, 2003.

Summary:

Eilis Ni Dhuibhne is now recognised as one of the masters of the short story form. Midwife to the Fairies reveals her progress as a story writer over the years since she first began to work in this genre. Ranging from the ultra realistic 'Some Hours in the Life of a Witch' to the surreal fantasy world of 'Fulfilment' and 'The Wife of Bath', the stories describe ordinary and not so ordinary life, and the lives of women in particular, in the feminist and post-feminist era in Ireland. Midwife to the Fairies is a selection of the best stories from the author's first two collections, Blood and Water and Eating Women is Not Recommended, which were published to acclaim in the 1980s, and features three new, previously unpublished works. The short stories are introduced by the eminent literary critic and academic, Dr Anne Fogarty.

Contents:

1 Wuff Wuff Wuff for de Valera! 1

2 The Flowering 9

3 Midwife to the Fairies 22

4 The Wife of Bath 31

5 The Catechism Examination 44

6 Blood and Water 52

7 A Visit to Newgrange 63

8 Night of the Fox 72

9 Holiday in the Land of Murdered Dreams 83

10 The Garden of Eden 120

11 Fufilment 128

12 Peacocks 143.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page xvi).

ISBN:

1855942011

OCLC:

52055620