MICHAEL COLLINS

La noche de la inauguración del curso en la Universidad de Bannockburn, el profesor de literatura E. Robert Pendleton decide suicidarse. Han sido demasiados años de desplantes académicos y fracasos literarios. Pero tampoco le acompaña la suerte en esta ultima mision y en lugar de morir, cae en un profundo coma. Cuando Adi, una doctoranda que investiga la obra de Pendleton, descubre una novela inedita en el sotano de la casa del autor y la publica convencida de su genialidad, al escritor parece llegarle por fin el reconocimiento. Pero desde su silla de ruedas, Pendleton no es consciente de que pronto saldran a la luz las sorprendentes similitudes entre el asesinato a sangre fria que cierra la novela, y el caso real de una niña torturada hasta la muerte diez años antes.

Michael Collins (16 October 1890 22 August 1922) was an Irish revolutionary, soldier and politician who was a leading figure in the early-20th century struggle for Irish independence. During the War of Independence he was Director of Intelligence of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and a government minister of the self-declared Irish Republic. He was then Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State from January 1922 and commander-in-chief of the National Army from July until his death in an ambush in August 1922, during the Civil War.Collins bequeathed to posterity a considerable body of writing: essays, speeches and tracts, articles and official documents in which he outlined plans for Irelands economic and cultural revival, as well as a voluminous correspondence, both official and personal. Selections have been published in The Path to Freedom and Michael Collins in His Own Words.

'There was a new beginning. He felt it everywhere, in the sweep of change, in the simple pronouncement of 'Yes we can!" It's 2008 and Norman Price - a moderately successful forty-something playwright living in Chicago - considers the shuddering impact of the financial crash. What's needed, he thinks, is the will for a new existence. When his parents die, one shortly after the other, The New Existence becomes Norman's mantra as he tries to recalibrate his own shaken world. Into Norman's tentative re-building, a couple of bombshells are dropped. His parents' old house has to go on the market, forcing him to revisit the past. And then he receives a mysterious email from a man he has never met but whose name is instantly, painfully, familiar. Norman's new existence is suddenly threatened by past secrets. Michael Collins takes post 9/11 America as the background for a deeply moving novel about complex identities and the fragility of humanity.

This is an erotica short about "Ethan," a sophisticated android "synthetic companion" Michael has received to "try out" in exchange for writing a review of the android and his capabilities. In this first part we are introduced to Michael, his roommate Alana, and Ethan, who shows up unexpectedly. 2714 words.

Professeur de Creative writing, E. Robert Pendleton est surtout un écrivain raté. Quand son ennemi intime, auteur à succès, est reçu par l''université, il tente de se suicider. Adi, une étudiante, vi

A brilliant collection of eleven very funny, dark stories by a Booker Prize shortlisted author.Michael Collins explores different aspects of the Irish character, and neatly satirises his countrys current preoccupations. Feminism, alcohol, emigration and the Church - none escape the authors caustic and unforgiving eye. As always with Collins, there are humour and horror in equal measure, love and betrayal mingled with defiance and laughter.Michael Collinss vision is breathtakingly black and his writing so sharp you could cut yourself on it IRISH TIMES

The first collection of stories from a Booker Prize shortlisted author.Michael Collinss stories are about Ireland, about the Irish as they are and as they would like to be imagined. In the title story we see the fatal consequences of self-deception. Posing as a nationalist hero, a young man travels to America with a suitcase full of meat. The warm welcome he expects swiftly dematerialises as he awakes to the grim realities of life in hiding.The vivid, surreal splendour of the writing allied with images of real people - the struggling widow, the careless father, the schoolboy and the philosopher, the good and the corrupt - make this an outstanding collection.

Dans l’Amérique en crise sociale, morale et économique de 2008, Michael Collins tisse avec empathie et virtuosité les liens qui unissent Norman Price, à Chicago, et Nate Feldman, au Canada. Deux fami

A thoroughly gripping novel about small town intrigue and corruption from the Booker-shortlisted author of THE KEEPERS OF TRUTH and THE RESURRECTIONISTS.The thinking mans John Grisham New StatesmanThe body of a small girl, dressed as an angel, is discovered late one night in a pile of autumn leaves at the side of the road. At first it looks like a hit and run - after all, its Halloween night and the streets have been full of children trick or treating. But how did a 3-year-old come to be alone on the dark streets at such a late hour?Lawrence, the policeman sent to investigate, finds himself under increasing pressure when it becomes clear that the chief suspect is the towns star quarterback. In the ensuing cover-up, Lawrence finds himself a pawn in the power games between the local mayor, the suspects family, and an investigator with some personal scores to settle.

From the BOOKER-shortlisted author of THE KEEPERS OF TRUTH. A writers journey towards fatherhood throws up shadows from his past.Karl is a troubled writer standing on the precipice of forty. After a degree of success in his early career he is now battling with what he terms his opus, his legacy to the world. But his partner Lori, the main breadwinner, is also thinking about her destiny and wants a child. As they embark on fertility treatment, Karl is forced to confront his deepest fear - that he will turn out to be like his father, a travelling salesman who was found dead after apparently committing murder when Karl was just thirteen. Unbeknown to Lori, Karl has already taken loans out against their house to pay for his mothers care home, and his freelance work, ghosting for a crime writer called Perry Fennimore, has dried up. As the fertility treatment progresses, Karl feels increasingly distanced from his relationship and the safety of home, and attracted to the shadowlands of Chicagos backstreets. When Fennimore re-emerges with a proposal, Karl begins to tap this new source of creativity - but just how far will he go in his pursuit of the ultimate story?

A novel of maturity and rare beauty - by an author shortlisted for the 2000 Booker Prize.Liam, a fallen angel with a bad track record, has arrived in America through the back door, an illegal immigrant stuck with the worst kind of job and a reputation for trouble. Forced on the run, he links up with another fallen star, a beautiful, pregnant girl called Angel. Hampered, yet spurred on, by Angels lowlife boyfriend, Liam finds the wide open spaces bring him a freedom not advertised by the immigration brokers back home, and the chance to run towards the life he had always dreamed of. Michael Collins writes with his characteristic rawness and anger about the Irish in 80s America. He brings a new poignancy to our understanding of the emigrant experience and of the loneliness of not belonging.

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