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Soft cover. Zustand: As New. 1st Edition. First Pegasus Books edition, 1st printing. 152pp. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in AS NEW condition. "In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Dubliners, eleven foremost Irish authors revisit James Joyce's 'Dear Dirty Dublin' in this inspired collection of luminous, new short stories. [] Five years into the last century James Joyce finished writing his 'chapter in the moral history of my country': a collection of stories he eventually published as Dubliners. To mark the centennial of that defining literary moment, eleven notable contemporary Irish writers here explore what the drunken Eddie Virago, echoing Joyce--in Joseph O'Connor's 'Two Little Clouds'--calls 'dear auld dirty Dubbalin' at the outset of the twenty-first century. [] Roddy Doyle and Joseph O'Connor, Maeve Binchy and Ivy Bannister, Bernard MacLaverty, Colum McCann, the playwright Frank McGuinness, Clare Boylan, Dermot Bolger, Desmond Hogan, Anthony Glavin--each of them brings vividly to the page in keenly observed, evocative particulars the lot of denizens in Ireland's capital city today. Together, with poignancy, imagination, ambiguity, and humor, these acclaimed, award-winning authors pen a potent new chapter in Dublin's moral history. [] In prosperous suburbs that can't measure the past; in tidy little houses that 'stink of scrubbing soap,' and in old pubs with new names--the Dublin in these stories, it seems, is everywhere 'not like the old days.' Yet it survives in painful lessons and unexpected encounters. In whiskey, wakes, and song. And in the noisy beating of the human heart." [publisher copy] "A few of the writers collected here are known in America, such as Roddy Doyle and Maeve Binchy, while others, such as Clare Boylan and Bernard MacLaverty, have a stronger reputation over there. But all the contributors have produced remarkably memorable, well-crafted work that reveals the kind of inner torment that Joyce knew so well. . . These are fine stories, each on its own; together, they constitute a collection worthy of its namesake."--Patricia Monaghan, Booklist. Pristine paperback w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine.