
An Arrow in Flight: Selected Stories of Mary Lavin - Paperback
by Mary Lavin
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Availability:In StockContributor:Mary Lavin, Colm Toibin (Introduction by)Publish date:3/3/2026Pages:416
Language:EnglishPublisher:Scribner Book CompanyISBN-13:9781668098714ISBN-10:1668098717UPC:9781668098714Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), World Literature, LiteraryBook Topic:IrelandSize:8.37 x 5.66 x 1.13 inchesWeight:0.84Product ID:SCM3SZ6M84
An Arrow in Flight: Selected Stories of Mary Lavin
One of the great overlooked voices of modern Irish literature, once hailed as "magnificent" by The New York Times, Mary Lavin's fiction is now being revived for a new generation of readers in this definitive volume, selected and introduced by Colm Tóibín. During her lifetime, Irish American writer Mary Lavin was a prominent literary figure. Throughout the 1940s, '50s, and '60s, her stories were...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Scribner Book CompanyISBN-13:9781668098714ISBN-10:1668098717UPC:9781668098714Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), World Literature, LiteraryBook Topic:IrelandSize:8.37 x 5.66 x 1.13 inchesWeight:0.84Product ID:SCM3SZ6M84
Mary Lavin was born in Massachusetts in 1912 but moved to Ireland as a child. Her first collection of short stories, Tales from Bective Bridge, published in 1942, was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and launched her acclaimed career in this genre. Her stories appeared in The New Yorker and Atlantic Monthly, among other magazines. Her novels, including The House in Clewe Street, were...
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