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Winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction, 2009
Inside Tim Johnston's Irish Girl (winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction) readers will find spellbinding stories of loss, absence, and the devastating effects of chance--of what happens when the unthinkable bad luck of other people, of other towns, becomes our bad luck, our town. Taut, lucid, and engrossing, provocative and dark--and often darkly funny--these stories have much to offer the lover of literary fiction as well as the reader who just loves a great story.
Review Quotes: "Tim Johnston's fine collection of short stories say much by leaving much unsaid. The stories focus on family, neighborhood, and the presence of evil, sometimes in unexpected places. Dialogue is spare but effective, helping to create the characters. Johnston writes frequently about buried emotion that refuses to stay buried. Moments of beauty shine through."--Dallas Morning News