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The Comets
Collected Short Fiction
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'For over thirty years, Eoin McNamee has been one of the outstanding writers of his generation' David Peace 'McNamee's books are intense and compressed, but so carefully worked that they read smoothly' The Times By the author of The Bureau and Resurrection Man, a complete collection...
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A richly textured collection of stories set in Ireland and Northern Ireland, that explore working-class lives teetering on the borderlands between violence and love.
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'For over thirty years, Eoin McNamee has been one of the outstanding writers of his generation' David Peace
'McNamee's books are intense and compressed, but so carefully worked that they read smoothly' The Times
By the author of The Bureau and Resurrection Man, a complete collection of Eoin McNamee's shorter fiction, published in one volume for the first time.
Each of these stories is a world to itself, steeped in eerie beauty.
A frosty northern witch changes the life of a twelve-year-old girl by teaching her that women keep their dreams in their hair. The wondrous souls of the dead become bright comets arcing over a seaside town. A girl on fire runs through the snow, and a woman on the run is transformed into an ice queen by her own will. Lives unravel and are remade; if they are lost, they are lost to beauty.
At once realist and magical, contemporary and timeless, The Comets confirms Eoin McNamee's status as one of Ireland's greatest prose stylists and a storyteller of inalienable power.
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ISBN: 9781529449969
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 October 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: riverrun
Illustration: N/A
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 224
About the Author
Eoin McNamee is the author of eight novels including Resurrection Man, later filmed, and the Blue Trilogy. His work has been nominated for and won many major prizes including the Man Booker Prize, the Gordon Burn Prize, the Kerry Fiction Prize, the Imison Award and the CWA Steel Dagger. Liam McIllvaney said of McNamee's prose that it has the 'cadenced majesty of McCarthy or DeLillo, but the vision it enacts is all his own.'
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