Tales from Bective Bridge

Name: Tales from Bective Bridge
Author: Mary Lavin
ISBN: 9780571295319

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Tales from Bective Bridge won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. First published in 1943, Tales from Bective Bridge is a collection of ten stories that memorably depict the rural mid-lands of Ireland and their people. Mary Lavin, though American-born, grew up in Athenry; and though the Irish short story was a dauntingly well-established form she succeeded in reinventing it with this, her debut collection, which exhibits a Chekhovian gift for the meaning of small things, contrary behaviours and emotions.

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