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The Keys to the Cottage: Stories from the West of Ireland

The Keys to the Cottage: Stories from the West of Ireland

Reyes, Carlos

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Letters & EssaysFiction AnthologiesBritish History

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0990819310
ISBN13: 9780990819318
Publisher: Lost Horse Press
Published: Apr 1 2015
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

Carlos Reyes has an almost Joycean ear for the nuances of Irish speech, and in The Keys to the Cottage he catches the energy and music of the talk and the crosstalk of a rural Ireland which scarcely exists any more. From his first bewildering encounters with people who see him as just another Yank, an outsider passing through, we watch him being enfolded into a culture and a family which he observes with a clear but loving eye. A rich and gentle humor suffuses this book; as Ireland changes rapidly Reyes holds onto a vison of a slower time of hard farmwork, long sessions of poetry and pints, and endless cups of tea lubricating talk of politics and pigs. He gives us a host of characters, in that special Irish sense of the word which mixes personality with an engrossing crookedness of individuality. By the end, the outsider has become the genial chronicler of the kinds of lives that will not be seen again, and has become an insider more Irish than many of the Irish themselves.--Ger Killeen

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