Desmond Hogan Book order (chronological)

Aus dem Engl. von Ulrike Seeberger. Fototeil: Renate von Mangoldt. [Hrsg.: Literarisches Colloquium Berlin ; Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD], Text und Porträt ; 17 1. Aufl. 1995 126, [18] S. : Ill. ; 20 cm engl. Broschur Berlin : Aufbau-Verl., ERSTAUSGABE

A novel which reflects the changes of the new Europe, and features an itinerant Irish homosexual who drifts around Europe and the southern states of the USA, occasionally returning to Dublin. The author won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1981.

One of Ireland's most important writers at his finest. Written over a period of twelve years, these stories seem to move nowehere with relentless, slow precision, yet each is as fulfilling and rich with suggestion as a full-scale novel.

A collection of thirteen short stories reflects the theme of the inner and outer violence that shapes and, at the same time, threatens the Irish spirit