{"product_id":"bernard-maclaverty-paperback-softback-9781684485611","title":"Bernard MacLaverty (Paperback \/ softback) 9781684485611","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBernard MacLaverty\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRichard Rankin Russell (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781684485611\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 12 August 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e234 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This newly updated version of Richard Rankin Russell's pioneering study combines heartfelt appreciation for the artistry of Bernard MacLaverty's fiction with discerning critical assessment of its moral complexities and historical contexts. Russell makes a compelling case for MacLaverty as contemporary Northern Ireland’s preeminent novelist and story-writer.\" - David Holdeman (coeditor of W. B. Yeats in Context) \"This revised, expanded, and thoroughly up-to-date edition of Richard Rankin Russell's volume remains the indispensable companion-and compass-for any serious student of MacLaverty's creative works.\" - Richard Haslam (associate professor, Saint Joseph's University) \"Bernard MacLaverty has remained creative and productive as a writer well into old age, so Richard Rankin Russell has updated his classic study of MacLaverty's fiction to take account of his most recent novel and collection of short stories. Fittingly, this new edition's sections on \u003ci\u003eMidwinter Break\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBlank Pages\u003c\/i\u003e are among its highlights.\" - Marilynn Richtarik (author of Getting to Good Friday: Literature and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland) \"This full-length study of a very popular and well-regarded Irish writer is lively, comprehensive, and critically acute: it is an admirable account of MacLaverty's art.\" - George Watson (professor of Irish literature, University of Aberdeen)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis newly updated and expanded paperback edition of the first monograph in English on Northern Ireland–born Bernard MacLaverty discusses his fiction in its aesthetic, cultural, religious, and political contexts. Richard Rankin Russell emphasizes MacLaverty’s dialectic of imprisonment versus freedom, the latter represented by love. Love in the earlier fiction is often perverted, whether in the name of family or Irish nationalism, but after the publication of the novel \u003ci\u003eCal\u003c\/i\u003e (1983), its manifestations become more positive and characters are able to escape various forms of imprisonment. Russell identifies three distinct phases of MacLaverty’s career-the visual, the sonic, and a blending of the two-and concludes by showing how MacLaverty’s style, humor, and values enable his deeply humane fiction to model human community. Attentive to language and theoretically well informed, each chapter of this enterprising book analyzes a particular short story collection or novel, and also explores the salient features of MacLaverty’s fiction generally.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Appearance Versus Reality in \u003ci\u003eSecrets and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. True and Distorted Fatherly Loves in \u003ci\u003eLamb\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Seasonal Communication in \u003ci\u003eA Time to Dance and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Perception, Confession, and Community in \u003ci\u003eCal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Hearing the Other: Sounds of Connection and Community in \u003ci\u003eThe Great Profundo and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. Ontological Encounters with Others in \u003ci\u003eWalking the Dog and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Beauties of \u003ci\u003eGrace Notes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Buoyant Beauty of a Belfast \u003ci\u003eBildungsroman\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eThe Anatomy School\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Truth of Fiction: \u003ci\u003eMatters of Life and Death and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 10. “\u003cbr\u003eAll Shall Be Well”\u003cbr\u003e: \u003ci\u003eMidwinter Break\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 11. Rescue and Resurrection Narratives: \u003ci\u003eBlank Pages and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Bucknell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52735594365208,"sku":"9781684485611","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/bernard-maclaverty-paperback-softback-9781684485611","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}