{"title":"Colin Barrett Collection","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCOLIN BARRETT \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003egrew up in County Mayo, Ireland. His stories have been published in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Stinging Fly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGranta\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHarper's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. His first book, the short story collection \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYoung Skins\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, won the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGuardian \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFirst Book Award, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. His second collection, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHomesickness\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, made the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e100 Notable Books of the Year and was a Book of the Year in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOprah Daily \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 3\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWILD HOUSES is the new book for 2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs Ballina prepares for its biggest weekend of the year, the simmering feud between small-time dealer, Cillian English, and County Mayo's fraternal enforcers, Gabe and Sketch Ferdia, spills over into violence and an ugly ultimatum. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen the reclusive Dev answers his door on Friday night he finds Doll - Cillian's bruised, sullen, teenage brother - in the clutches of Gabe and Sketch. Jostled by his nefarious cousins, goaded by his dead mother's dog and struck by spinning lights, Dev is unwillingly drawn headlong into the Ferdias' revenge fantasy. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMeanwhile, seventeen-year-old Nicky can't shake the feeling something bad has happened to her boyfriend Doll. Hungover, reeling from a fractious Friday night and plagued by ghosts of her own, Nicky sets out on a feverish mission to save Doll, even as she questions her future in Ballina. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe beautifully crafted, thrillingly-told story of two outsiders striving to find themselves as their worlds collapse in chaos and violence, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWild Houses \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis the long- anticipated debut novel from award-winning and critically-acclaimed short story writer, Colin Barrett. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"homesickness-tpb-w2","title":"Colin Barrett: Homesickness [2022] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the prize-winning author of YOUNG SKINS, comes HOMESICKNESS - a quietly caustic, startlingly beautiful and wonderfully wry new short story collection.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A mesmerisingly powerful book, full of the strangeness and beauty of life' Sally Rooney\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Addictive, stylish and violently funny... 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The characters are edgy, often violent, locked into a world described in ways that are both harsh and tender. . . Adds a sense of myth, even a spiritual aura, to the narrative that lifts the meanness of the circumstances into some other realm' Colm Toibin, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Winner of the 2014 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award\u003cbr\u003e*Winner of the 2014 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis magnificent collection takes us to Glanbeigh, a small town in rural Ireland - a town in which the youth have the run of the place. Boy racers speed down the back lanes; couples haunt the midnight woods; young skins huddle in the cold once The Peacock has closed its doors. Here the young live hard and wear the scars. It matters whose sister you were seen with. 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