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The Servants and Other Strange StoriesĀ is a sewn hardback book of 283pp, printed lithographically with silk ribbon marker, printed boards, and head and tailbands. Limited to only 300 hardcover copies.
Book is in new unread condition
Published by Tartarus Press
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The Servants and Other Strange StoriesĀ is a sewn hardback book of 283pp, printed lithographically with silk ribbon marker, printed boards, and head and tailbands. Limited to only 300 hardcover copies.
Book is in new unread condition
Published by Tartarus Press
About this book:
The Servants and Other Strange StoriesĀ includes an Irish short story that never ends, a ghost story set in Keatsā House, an encounter between āthe little peopleā and an Irish midlands town. The collection also contains three novellas featuring a woman caught up in the Irish Famine, a private eye who discovers a secret Dublin police unit, and a man who is shipwrecked on an abandoned island off the West Coast of Ireland only to find itās not so abandoned after all.
At the heart of the collection is āThe Servantsā, which tells the story of Seamus, a robot who has a vocation to the priesthood. Set in an Irish version of Asimovās robot universe, the novella pays homage to Umberto EcoāsĀ The Name of the Rose, and Flann OāBrienās De Selby.
Ranging from mystery stories to science fiction,Ā The Servants and Other Strange StoriesĀ is Irish story telling at its best.
Contents: āThe Irish Short Story That Never Endsā, āBitter Chillā, āPictures at an Exhibitionā, āRefugeesā, āThe Spot in His Eyeā, āLetters from a Famineā, āThe Heartās Needleā, āThe Servantsā, āThe Islandersā, āAcknowledgementsā.
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John OāDonoghue is the author ofĀ Brunch PoemsĀ (Waterloo Press, 2009) andĀ Fools & MadĀ (Waterloo Press, 2014); the memoirĀ Sectioned: A Life InterruptedĀ (John Murray 2009); and the short story collection,Ā The King From Over The WaterĀ (The Wild Geese Press, 2019).
His short stories have been published inĀ The Irish Times,Ā The Irish Post,Ā The Stinging Fly,Ā HOWLĀ Magazine,Ā The London Magazine,Ā Aesthetica, andĀ The Frogmore Papers.
SectionedĀ was awarded Mind Book of the Year 2010. āThe Irish Short Story That Never Endsā was awarded The Irish Post Listowel Writersā Week Prize in 2016.
John OāDonoghueĀ has a PhD in Creative Writing from Bath Spa and lives in Brighton.
Praise for The Servants and Other Strange Stories:
“These clever and very entertaining stories occupy the borderlines where different eras, different places, and different genres intermingle. They can be frightening, these nebulous zones, but they also contain all the possibilities of human life, where uncertainty is to be welcomed, rather than shunned. With tales of robot priests, mysterious islands and ghostly poets, OāDonoghue is an expert guide to the borderlands and the people who dwell there. The mist beckons.”
Jeff Noon (Vurt, Pollen, Automated Alice)
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