Introduction -- Secrets, 1977. The exercise ; A rat and some renovations ; St Paul could hit the nail on the head ; A happy birthday ; Secrets ; The miraculous candidate ; Between two shores ; Where the tides meet ; Hugo ; A pornographer woos ; Anodyne ; The deep end -- A time to dance, 1982. Father and son ; A time to dance ; My dear Palestrina ; Life drawing ; Phonefun limited ; The daily woman ; The beginnings of a sin ; Eels ; Language, truth and lockjaw -- The great profundo, 1987. Words the happy say ; The break ; The drapery man ; More than just the disease ; In the hills above Lugano ; End of season ; The great profundo ; Remote ; Across the street -- Walking the dog, 1994. Walking the dog ; The grandmaster ; A silent retreat ; At the beach ; The wake house ; In bed ; Compensations ; Just visiting -- Matters of life & death, 2006. On the roundabout ; The Trojan sofa ; Learning to dance ; The clinic ; A Belfast memory ; The wedding ring ; The assessment ; Up the coast ; Visiting Takabuti ; Winter storm.
Summary:
Melding his native Irish sensibilities to those of his adopted west-coast Scotland, these tales attend to life's big events: love and loss, separation and violence, death and betrayal. But the stories teem with smaller significant moments too - private epiphanies, chilling exchanges, intimate encounters.
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