Curfew and Other Stories

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Sean O'Reilly's characters inhabit a world that can seem dangerously indifferent to human feeling but alive to the thrills of living on the edge. Unnecessary risks are taken which are punished, not obscured, by family; dangerous brothers and traditional, hardened fathers wield power, usually with brutality. The stories in what was O'Reilly's debut collection present us with a harsh and unsentimental view of the mundane, underscored by moments of great beauty, humour and pathos.

Author Bio

Born in Derry in 1969, Sean O'Reilly is the acclaimed author of the short story collection Curfew, and the novel Love and Sleep. He lives in Ireland.