Fables of the Irish Intelligentsia

By Nina Fitzpatrick, Rita Chang-Eppig, fitzpatrick-nina

Book Overview

The intelligentsia of the title are not just academics, but outsiders, people who do not quite fit in with normal life or normal behaviour. In all her stories, the author mocks the English image of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140173242
• ISBN13: 9780140173246
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.0" x 1.0" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Superb short stories

This is short story writing at its best: witty, intelligent, very well constructed and with unexpected, puzzling endings. The language is superb, with different styles, jargons and flavours. Brilliant and very amusing observations of social fads and phenomena, not necessarily Irish only. In my opinion: instant classic.

Check-Mate!

A great little book that everyone should read tongue in cheek. Ireland needs storytelling that can break a way out from under the influence of McGahern and Trevor, two towering influences. Fitzpatrick is erudite and witty, yet her stories retain an almost mythical quality.