There Are Little Kingdoms: Stories

There Are Little Kingdoms: Stories

<p><b>From the author of <i>City of Bohane </i>and <i>Dark Lies the Island</i>, a debut collection that "could easily have been titled ‘These Are Little Masterpieces'" (<i>The Irish Times</i>)</b></p><p>This award-winning story collection by Kevin Barry summons all the laughter, darkness, and intensity of contemporary Irish life. A pair of fast girls court trouble as they cool their heels on a slow night in a small town. Lonesome hillwalkers take to the high reaches in pursuit of a saving embrace. A bewildered man steps off a country bus in search of his identity—and a stiff drink. These stories, filled with a grand sense of life's absurdity, form a remarkably surefooted collection that reads like a modern-day <i>Dubliners</i>. Winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, and a 2007 book of the year in the <i>Irish Times</i>, the <i>Sunday Tribune</i>, and <i>Metro</i>, <i>There Are Little Kingdoms</i> marks the stunning entrance of a writer who burst onto the literary scene fully formed.</p>