The Meat Eaters

By Michael Collins

Book Overview

With an unflinching eye, a rude sense of humor, and a prose style that is by turns elliptical, precise, and magical, an astonishing young writer presents nine raw, powerful, shocking, and audacious... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0753807564
• ISBN13: 9780753807569
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Phoenix
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.8" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Very Potent Stuff

Michael Collins' stories are not for the faint of heart, nor for the simple of mind. They are emotionally complex without being stylistically opaque. He finds good compromises between writerly and readerly concerns, between brutality and deftness, between sensitivity and senselessness. A wonderful collection from a fine writer whose work should receive the attention here in the U.S. that it has abroad.

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This book is worth finding. Not a name you're going to hear thrown around a coffee house, but definately worth discovering and sharing. Collins short stories are rich, dynamic and interesting. One is handed a photograph of words in which the people of Ireland, and their culture, are placed in facinating situations. Not may know of this work, so be one of the few who do.