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Twenty-Twenty Vision

Twenty-Twenty Vision

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Author: Mary Morrissy
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Intricately layered and deftly woven together, Twenty-Twenty Vision is a collection of stories concerned with hindsight, honesty and late middle-age regret – the fruits of life lived, love lost and secrets buried. 

Told with remarkable empathy and wry humour, these stories form a portrait of a generation of women and men moving into the third age with a mixture of apprehension, longing and regret. In the midst of an historic pandemic, Christine Beckett is faced with some home truths when her best friend, suffering from dementia, decides after a lifetime to be honest with her; Olivia Fletcher has an epiphany about a man who has loved her for decades; Bernard Travers revisits an unlikely romantic interlude with the mother of his childhood friend that has sustained him for 40 years. 

Through chastening moments of self-discovery, Mary Morrissy’s inimitable characters revisit their pasts and grapple with late-life perspectives in this beautiful tapestry of late middle-age reckoning. 

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ISBN: 9781843519164

Extent: 264

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  • ‘Mary Morrissy always writes with great insight, deep humanity and an oftentimes acerbic eye [...] I challenge you not to see something of yourself reflected here.’ Jan Carson

  • 'I adore Mary Morrissy’s stories. Fresh, deft, succinct, each one is like a dart to the heart.’ Lucy Caldwell

  • 'In Twenty-Twenty Vision, Mary Morrissy gives us deeply self-mining, gorgeously human characters, who miss neither tricks nor beats. This is insightful, vivid fiction from an accomplished storyteller who is, simply, one of our best.’ Nuala O'Connor

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About the Author

Mary Morrissy is an award-winning Irish novelist (The Hennessy Award, Lannan Foundation Award) and short story writer, the author of four novels, Mother of Pearl, The Pretender, The Rising of Bella Casey and Penelope Unbound, as well as two collections of short stories, A Lazy Eye and Prosperity Drive. She has 20 years’ experience of teaching creative writing at university level in the US and Ireland. Until May 2020, she was the associate director of creative writing at University College Cork. 

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