Fiction
Dubliners
Fifteen stories, none long, all set in a city Joyce considered paralyzed by church, drink, and habit. A boy attends a bazaar too late, a clerk walks the river with a woman not his wife, a mother mourns a son who has died without the last rites. The famous final story, “The Dead,” takes a dinner party and turns it into a meditation on love, memory, and the way snow falls equally on the living and the dead.Signet Classics' edition includes an introduction by Edna O'Brien, herself no stranger to Irish exile. The collection works best when read slowly; its power depends on what is not said, on the moments just after a character recognizes something true and chooses not to act on it.
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