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  • Published: 3 December 1999
  • ISBN: 9780099283560
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $32.99

A Time To Dance



Bernard Mac Laverty's beautifully turned storeis are full of humour, terse realism and moments of touching or shocking surprise. Nelson plays truant and sees something he wishes he hadn't in the title story, 'A Time to Dance'. In Phonefun Limited Sadie and Agnes, retired prostitutes hit upon an inventive new way of making someone happy with a phone call, while in My Dear Palestrina' a remarkable music teacher initiates her pupil into the mysteries of art and maturity.

  • Published: 3 December 1999
  • ISBN: 9780099283560
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $32.99

About the author

Bernard MacLaverty

Bernard MacLaverty lives in Glasgow. He has written five collections of stories and four other novels, including Grace Notes which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award. He has written versions of his fiction for other media – radio and television plays, screenplays and libretti.

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