An Arrow in Flight: Selected Stories of Mary Lavin

ISBN: 1668098717

Author: Lavin, Mary

Condition: New

One of the great overlooked voices of modern Irish literature, once hailed as magnificent by The New York Times, Mary Lavins 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 frequently featured in The New Yorker, compared to the works of Chekhov, James, and Wharton, and celebrated in major publications, ranging from The New York Times to The Irish Times. Lavin won prestigious awards, such as the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Katherine Mansfield Prize, and her influence extends to many of todays great fiction writers. Yet, despite her incredible success, Lavins once acclaimed body of work has largely fallen out of print, lost and erased from the canon.Now, An Arrow in Flight brings together sixteen of Lavins most powerful stories, selected and introduced by Colm Tóibín. In witty and sharp prose, these tales explore familial tensions, relationships between men and women, and the social mores and biases of 20th-century Irish society, from the streets of Dublin to the fields of County Meath. Essential for any fan of contemporary Irish literature, An Arrow in Flight shines a much-needed light on a master of the genre (Los Angeles Times) who has, for too long, remained in the shadows.