Re O Laighleis
Author of Gafa (Irish Edition)
About the Author
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Works by Re O Laighleis
Aistear intinne 4 copies
Ciorcal Meiteamorfach 2 copies
Aistear intinne 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1953
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Ireland
- Place of death
- Sallynoggin, Co. Dublin, Ireland
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Reviews
Awards
Statistics
- Works
- 22
- Members
- 121
- Popularity
- #164,307
- Rating
- 3.6
- Reviews
- 5
- ISBNs
- 27
- Languages
- 2
A man’s wife dies and he promptly ponders a pistol in a drawer. A woman who pledges two years of celibacy as a devotion to the Virgin Mary is terrorized by her husband for it. A retiring teacher ponders what she missed by not following her love to Canada years earlier. A boy gives his drunken bully of a father a taste of his own. A ridiculous doctor gets his comeuppance. Two women who had been lovers in college are reunited by the funeral of the husband of one - the riskiest story here.
The stories and their morals aren’t subtle and are often simplistic. The lessons are often telegraphed – or are just left sticking out there in plain sight. Sins are punished. Retribution administered. Morality fiction.… (more)