Heaven Lies About Us
  • Published: 15 January 2006
  • ISBN: 9780099470328
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $29.99

Heaven Lies About Us

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'Heaven Lies About Us give me joy' Colm Toibin

In these twelve stories, Eugene McCabe plumbs the soul of the Irishborder counties, where confusion, divided loyalties, and conflict arepart of everyday life. A master of arresting dialogue and intimate characterisation, celebrated as a major playwright and author of one of the most important Irish novels of the last fifty years, McCabe demonstrates his outstanding gift for short fiction in this revelatory and haunting collection.
  • Published: 15 January 2006
  • ISBN: 9780099470328
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Eugene McCabe

Eugene McCabe was born in Glasgow in 1930. His novel Death and Nightingales, published in 1992, was described by Michael Ondaatje as 'a deeply moving, powerful, and unforgettable book'; John Banville said that it 'should put Eugene McCabe in the first rank of contemporary Irish novelists', and Colm Toibin called it 'clearly one of the great Irish masterpieces of the century'.

Also by Eugene McCabe

Christ In The Fields
Death And Nightingales
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Praise for Heaven Lies About Us

'there is the sublime sweep of McCabe's craggy cadences to sustain you, and he takes an ingenious delight in the mechanics of language'.

Alfred Hickling, Guardian
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