The collected short stories
(Book)

Editors' introduction -- A note on the texts -- Acknowledgements -- Banished misfortune and other stories: First snow of the year; A family and a future; The island and the calves; The curse; Blake's column; The girl in the muslin dress; Reprieve; Kelly; Betrayal; Love; The tenant; Banished misfortune -- Occasional stories: The caretaker; This side of summer; The workman; Jude and his mother; Before the off; Along the lines; Images -- Appendices: Appendix I: First snow of the year (original 1973 version) -- Appendix II: Legal times -- Appendix III: The smell of roses.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Dermot Healy wrote intricate and innovative short stories that, along with works by Neil Jordan and Desmond Hogan, relaunched the Irish short story tradition. Set in small-town Ireland and the equally suffocating confines of the Irish expat communities of 1970s London, Healy's stories show compassion toward the marginalized and the dispossessed. Gathering all of Healy's stories together for the first time, this collection includes the long prose-drama "Before the Off" and Healy's final short works, "Along the Lines" and "Images"--,Provided by publisher.