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Prosperity Drive Mary Morrissy

Prosperity Drive By Mary Morrissy

Prosperity Drive by Mary Morrissy


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Summary

'A wonderful writer' Hilary Mantel

All of life is laid bare in Prosperity Drive. All of the characters begin their journeys on Prosperity Drive, appear and disappear, bump into each other in chance encounters, and join up again through love, marriage or memory in this mesmerising book.

Prosperity Drive Summary

Prosperity Drive by Mary Morrissy

'A wonderful writer' Hilary Mantel

All of life is laid bare in Prosperity Drive. A woman falls and remembers a moment decades earlier that changed the course of her life. A failed priest teaches children to swim at the YMCA. A teenage girl takes a spanner to the car of the young man who has driven her home. A honeymoon in Venice goes disastrously wrong. A man is reunited with his first love in an airport departure lounge. All of the characters begin their journeys on Prosperity Drive, appear and disappear, bump into each other in chance encounters, and join up again through love, marriage or memory in this mesmerising book.

Prosperity Drive Reviews

She is a true heir to Chekhov and the great writers... Her clear-eyed vision and her deep compassion, along with her lovely sense of the comic and her exceptional literary articulacy, make this an outstanding collection. -- Eilis Ni Dhuibhne * Irish Times *
Mary Morrissy is a wonderful writer. These stories are entertaining and deft, so skilfully balanced and interwoven that when you begin to pick out the pattern it is a real moment of delight. -- Hilary Mantel
Morrissy bewitches the reader with an immaculate yet irreverent turn of phrase, her imagination slanted at a rare angle. -- Imogen Lycett-Green * Daily Mail *
Story by story [Morrissy] stitches together a hundred tiny plots, moving backwards and forwards across 60 years, and outwards to Italy, America, Australia and Vietnam... Morrissy proves herself a steady observer of the bleakness of everyday life, as well as when bleakness becomes catastrophe. -- Hannah Rosefield * Observer *
One of the best Irish books you'll read this year. -- Sara Keating * Sunday Business Post *

About Mary Morrissy

Mary Morrissy has published three novels - Mother of Pearl, The Pretender and The Rising of Bella Casey - and a collection of short stories, A Lazy Eye (1993). She has won a Hennessy Award and a Lannan Literary Foundation Award and currently teaches at University College Cork.

Additional information

GOR008099968
9781784700577
1784700576
Prosperity Drive by Mary Morrissy
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
20170223
288
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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