Pictures by Goya and Other Stories
- ISBN-10
- 0143020552
- ISBN-13
- 9780143020554
- Category
- New Zealand
- Pages
- 238
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Author
- Vincent O'Sullivan
Description
In this new collection of short stories from Vincent O'Sullivan, the characters find themselves at points of crisis - domestic, emotional, sometimes comic. These sharply observed, artful narratives test the borders of experience and imagination, confronting the assessment of memory. The characters are left to deal with recollections - variously ironic, untrustworthy, sentimental and affirming. The stories attend, in a characteristically O'Sullivan manner, to a surprisingly wide interpretation of what New Zealand lives may mean. The 'ordinary' is presented with a hard-edged compassion.
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