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The Comets

Collected Short Fiction
By Eoin McNamee
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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... Read More
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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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

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

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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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