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 Jul 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 was born in Dublin. His books include eight previous novels: Cowboys and Indians (Whitbread Prize shortlist), Desperadoes, The Salesman, Inishowen, Star of the Sea (American Library Association Award, Irish Post Award for Fiction, France’s Prix Millepages, Italy’s Premio Acerbi, Prix Madeleine Zepter for European novel of the year), Redemption Falls, Ghost Light (Dublin One City One Book Novel 2011) and The Thrill of it All. His fiction has been translated into forty languages. He received the 2012 Irish PEN Award for outstanding achievement in literature and in 2014 he was appointed Frank McCourt Professor 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?
Figure in a Photograph: A Short Story from 'Where Have You Been?'
Irish Male At Home And Abroad
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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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