Border Station - Softcover

Shane Connaughton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140178562 ISBN 13: 9780140178562

Publisher: Penguin Putnam~trade, 1994

Synopsis

A series of stories about a growing boy's relationship with his father on the bleak Ulster border. He grows to sexual awareness and understanding of the people around him and lives on his wits and love.

About this title

From Library Journal:

In this slim, memorable volume of seven stories about a single family, the borders are those between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, paternal and maternal filiation, youth and adulthood, home and distance. The station is a rural police post, scene of a son's negotiation of a brutal farm-town society and an equally brutal home life. The proceedings are as anonymous as that border in the title, and they are related in the conspicuously terse language and adolescent male perspective central to recent Irish fiction. An exciting addition to the series of compelling Irish books about debilitating life and liberating language that extends from Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man through McGahern's The Barracks .
- John P. Harrington, The Cooper Union, New York
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

In these seven interlocking tales, an Irish boy who craves the approval of his coarse, burly police sergeant father discovers the intricacies of relationships with peers, parents and religion. ``Adroitly crafted, intensely dramatic,'' said PW . ``Written in spare yet lyrical prose, these sometimes poignant, often hilarious stories capture the mosaic of contemporary Irish life.''

Copyright 1991 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Putnam~trade
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0140178562
• ISBN 13: 9780140178562
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176