• The Boatman and Other Stories

• By: Billy O’Callaghan
• Narrated by: Gary Furlong, Jan Cramer

The award-winning Irish short story writer and author of the critically acclaimed novel My Coney Island Baby delivered his most successful book of short fiction to date.

A poignant collection of stories that “captures from the opening page.” (Bernard MacLaverty)

These are 12 poignant, quietly brilliant and carefully crafted stories that explore the resilience of the human heart and its ability to continue beating after bereavement, violence, loss of love. as well as incomparable hurt and grief.

Spanning a century and two continents, from muddy fields in Ireland to a hotel room in Paris, a run-down bar in Segovia to a plane to Taipei, The Boatman and Other Stories follows a Unforgettable cast of characters. Three shots on the Irish border define a young man’s life; a writer clings to an unrequited love affair with a woman who is never quite within his reach; a fisherman who is used to hard labor rolls up his sleeves and digs graves for his children; A newlywed couple embark on their first adventure, living in the wild on the desolate Beginish island.

Ranging from tragedy to brutal confrontation, these dense stories reveal the quiet heroism and gentle dignity of ordinary life. Billy O’Callaghan is a master of celebrating the smallness of human fire against darkness: its steady strength and luminosity.

I feel as if I have died a thousand times myself and that I have known a thousand other lives besides this one. Maybe it’s just that we’re all the same, and maybe each of us has a fork in everything, until we figure it out.

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