Published in association with the Irish Independent. 262pp. Green cloth boards with silver titles (clean and sharp). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket, uniformly styled throughout the series (gentle edge wear). No. 19 in the Great Irish Writers series, a collection of 20 hardback volumes celebrating some of the finest of Irish literature and writers. O’Faolain was hailed as the Irish Chekhov, of the finest short story writers of the English language. Most of these seventeen stories take place in Dublin, but two are set in New York and Paris but even when the stories are set abroad, O’Faolian is steadfastly obsessed with what it means to be Irish. His characters are varied but always full of life. 8vo.