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Let's Dance Lucy Sweeney Byrne

Let's Dance By Lucy Sweeney Byrne

Let's Dance by Lucy Sweeney Byrne


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Let's Dance by Lucy Sweeney Byrne

In her latest collection of dark, hilarious and provocative short stories, Lucy Sweeney Byrne explores women on the brink - of love, of joy, of disaster - with her signature wit, insight and daring. A newlywed grapples with the chasm that has opened up between her and her husband on the subject of children. A young mother tries to eke out a life for her family on an island named for a dead man, unaware of the psychic toll that is taken on her by the land and sea. And a woman at a drug-fuelled house party ruminates on the dark past she shares with one of the guests. In Let's Dance, Lucy Sweeney Byrne, in her signature hypnotic prose, explores subjects such as physicality, identity and disillusionment. Utilising forms ranging from flash fiction to novella, Let's Dance is a glittering display of fiction's ability to probe, startle and entertain.

Let's Dance Reviews


Hers is a voice so strong, she makes the rest of us sound timid. Sean OReilly

I love Lucy Sweeney Byrne's precise, scurrying prose I don't know how she does what she does. Tim MacGabhann

Let's Dance is a soul-stirring collection, as Lucy Sweeney Byrne carves women's simmering rage on the page with tender, hypnotic prose. Let's Dance is a modern masterpiece of the short story form. This collection is a triumph that cements Sweeney Byrne as among the best in contemporary Irish literature. Aimee Walsh

These stories of reflection and resolve are all youd ever want in a collection. Its crises are acute, and the thoughts and actions of its characters will cut to the heart. Gavin Corbett

'Lucy Sweeney Byrnes stories are like songs that make you sit up and listen till the last note. An album full of hits, Lets Dance is sweet and catchy, tender and acid, salty and wicked and always wonderfully readable.' Rob Doyle

'In her gripping formal efforts to dilate a passing something before the nothings void, in fierce commitment to her subjects of time and the body, abjection and freedom, Lucy Sweeney Byrne is our Irish Duras while also wholly, electrifyingly, her own artist in every step of Lets Dance.'Mary ODonoghue

About Lucy Sweeney Byrne


Lucy Sweeney Byrne is the author of the short story collection Paris Syndrome (2019, Banshee Press), met with critical acclaim and shortlisted for numerous awards, including the Edge Hill Prize, the Kate OBrien Award, the Butler Literary Award, and the John McGahern Prize. Lucys short fiction, essays and poetry have appeared in The Dublin Review, The Stinging Fly, Southword, AGNI, Litro, Grist, 3:AM magazine, and other literary outlets. She also writes book reviews for The Irish Times.

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NGR9781739397975
9781739397975
1739397975
Let's Dance by Lucy Sweeney Byrne
New
Paperback
Banshee Press
2024-10-03
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