Berkeley's Telephone and Other Fictions
Berkeley's Telephone and Other Fictions
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Berkeley’s Telephone, the first book of fiction by the poet Harry Clifton, is a darkly dazzling story-cycle concerned with arrivals and departures, identity and exile, sex and family and betrayal. Some of these stories are set in Africa, Asia or continental Europe, others in Ireland; they treat with equal conviction savannah villages and civil-service offices, businessmen and night-watchmen. They are all about human yearning and wandering. Together they have the cohesiveness and drama of a novel. The title story has been selected for Phoenix Irish Short Stories edited by David Marcus (July 2000).
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ISBN: 9781901866506
Extent: 224
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‘Carson is writing to devastating effect… Still Life will be remembered as one of the great testimonies to married love.' Paul Muldoon, The Irish Times
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About the Author
Harry Clifton was born in Dublin and has travelled widely in Africa and Asia, and latterly in Europe. He is the author of several volumes of poetry – The Walls of Carthage(1977), Office of the Salt Merchant (1979), Comparative Lives (1982), The Liberal Cage (1988), Desert Route: Selected Poems, 1973-1988 (1992), and Night Train through the Brenner (1994). On the Spine of Italy, his chronicle of a year in a mountain village, was published in 1999. He divides his time between Ireland and France.