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True Believers
  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446435694
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

True Believers

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1 Aug 2011
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18 July 2011
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A brilliant collection of short stories - 'funny, sad, shocking and piercing observations on Irish life' - Sunday Telegraph.

True Believers introduces us to a world of characters stunning in their variety. Here are sad-hearted priests, old friends, young lovers, rockers and rebels. Here are runaway husbands and runaway wives. Here are jokers and fanatics, punks and poets, thinkers and drinkers, chancers and killers. Here are the true believers, all clinging desperately to some kind of faith in a mutable and dangerous world.
  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446435694
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224
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About the author

Joseph O'Connor

Joseph O’Connor’s fiction has been published in forty languages. His twenty books include eleven novels, among them the million-selling Star of the Sea, Ghost Light, Shadowplay and My Father’s House, a Washington Post Book of the Year. His work has been shortlisted for the LA Times Book Award, twice for the Whitbread/Costa and twice for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and has won the Nielsen Bookscan Golden Book Award, France’s Prix Millepages, Italy’s Premio Acerbi and Premio Napoli, an American Library Association Award, the American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the Hennessy Writer of the Year and Hall of Fame Awards, the Eason/An Post Novel of the Year Award, a Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library, the Irish Pen Award for Outstanding Achievement and the Prix Madeleine Zepter for European Novel of the Year. He is Frank McCourt Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick.

www.josephoconnorauthor.com

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Also by Joseph O'Connor

The Ghosts Of Rome
My Father's House
Shadowplay
The Thrill of it All
Where Have You Been?
Irish Male At Home And Abroad
Ghost Light
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Praise for True Believers

The laureate of the rising Irish generation, he combines the demotic wit of Roddy Doyle and the structural guile of Colm Toibin. A significant writer of a very contemporary kind.

Irish Times

O'Connor writers with rawness, energy and verve

Sunday Telegraph

O'Connor describers the pretentions and uncertainties of youth with compassion, humour and a fine dramatic edge

Literary Review

Smart and engaging

Observer

First, the good news: Eddie Virago is back. The hero of Joseph O'Connor's widely acclaimed novel Cowboys and Indians features in the first of the thirteen stories that make up True Believers, and he makes a tasty entree. Now for the great new: there's plenty more where Eddie came from.

The Times
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