Book description
'Everyone should try childcare with a hangover. Once.'
Sean Hyland's wife has left him in Dublin for the weekend, home
alone with their infant daughter and teenage son. He has never felt
more middle aged... Figure in a Photograph is a
tender, funny and quietly poignant story that takes us
to the heart of fatherhood and marriage, via skateboards, Jeremy Kyle
and ectoplasms of snot.
This story is taken from
Where Have You Been?,
award-winning novelist Joseph O'Connor's first collection of short
stories in more than twenty years.
Ranging from urgently contemporary London and Dublin to New York's
Lower East Side in the nineteenth century, from dark comedy to
poignancy, from the wryly provocative to the quietly beautiful,
Where Have You Been? offers a gathering of dreamers and lost
souls who contend with the confusions of living.
An entertaining and life-affirming read from the internationally
acclaimed author of Star of the Sea, Redemption Falls
and Ghost Light.
The full physical and digital editions will be available on 4th
October 2012.
Ireland's greatest storyteller Sunday Independent A writer who
reveals the power of the short story to speak for our time Irish Times
Joseph O'Connor was born in Dublin. His novels include: Cowboys
and Indians (Whitbread Prize shortlist), Star of the Sea,
Redemption Falls and Ghost Light. Star of the
Sea became an international bestseller, winning the Irish
Post Award for Fiction, an American Library Association Award,
France's Prix Millepages, Italy's Premio Acerbi, and the Prix
Madeleine Zepter for European Novel of the Year. His work has been
published in thirty-five languages.
www. josephoconnorauthor. com
