In a cafe : selected stories. / Mary Lavin. Edited by Elizabeth Walsh Peavoy ; foreword by Thomas Kilroy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lavin, Mary, 1912-1996.

Contributor:

Kilroy, Thomas.

Peavoy, Elizabeth Walsh.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Penguin twentieth-century classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, English--20th century.

Short stories, English.

English fiction--Irish authors.

English fiction.

Genre:

Short stories, English.

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

336 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

[London] : Penguin Books, 1999.

Summary:

On an island teeming with masters of the short story, Mary Lavin's distinct voice and devoted following set her apart. Before her death in 1996, this Irish writer had received many honors and prizes not only for her luminous short stories but also for several highly regarded novels. William Trevor praised Lavin's ability to "make moments timeless, to illuminate people and places, words and things, by touching them with the magic of the rarely-gifted storyteller." In a Cafe makes available for the first time in the United States a collection of her most beloved pieces as compiled by her daughter. In masterworks such as the title story, an unsettling portrayal of widowhood, and "The Will, " which Layin considered the finest expression of her art, the justice in Trevor's declaration we recognize that "the short story of today owes her a very great debt."

Contents:

In the middle of the fields

A family likeness

Lemonade

Tom

The girders

A cup of tea

A gentle soul

Chamois gloves

The joy-ride

The convert

In a café

A story with a pattern

The widow's son

The will

The little prince

Trastevere.

Notes:

Originally published: Dublin: Town House, 1995.

"Published in Penguin Books 1999."

ISBN:

0141180404 :

9780141180403

OCLC:

41926101