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01903aam a2200265 i 4500 001 1F3EF23E803411ED944134D030ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221220010056 008 210906t20212021enk e b 001 j eng d 020 $a 152939466X 020 $a 9781529394665 035 $a (OCoLC)1268130398 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d JUH $d SILO 245 00 $a Shadow voices : $b 300 years of Irish genre fiction : a history in stories / $c edited by John Connolly. 264 1 $a London : $b Hodder & Stoughton, $c 2021. 300 $a x, 1078 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 1052-1062) and index. 520 $a The story of genre fiction -- horror, romantic fiction, science fiction, crime writing, and more -- is also the story of Irish fiction. Irish writers have given the world Lemuel Gulliver, Dracula, and the world of Narnia. They have produced pioneering tales of detection, terrifying ghost stories and ground-breaking women's popular fiction. Now, for the first time, John Connolly's one volume presents the history of Irish genre writing and uses it to explore how we think about fiction itself. Deeply researched, and passionately argued, this book takes the lives of more than sixty writers -- by turns tragic, amusing, and adventurous, but always extraordinary -- and sets them alongside the stories they have written, to create a new way of looking at genre and literature, both Irish and beyond. Here are vampires and monsters, murderers and cannibals. Here are female criminal masterminds and dogged detectives, star-crossed lovers and vengeful spouses. 650 0 $a Irish fiction. 655 7 $a Short stories. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Connolly, John, $d 1968- $e editor. 941 $a 1 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20221220013324.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1F3EF23E803411ED944134D030ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search