"These are subtle, quiet stories about people fumbling through a world that is changing too rapidly for them to keep up. I particularly liked 'Archeologists, 'Another Life,' and 'New Deal.'
Ireland's recent economic troubles add a degree of irony to these stories that the author couldn't have intended, but it makes the collection that much more affecting."
Publisher Overlook TP
Publication Date 2009-10-27
Section Fiction / All Staff Suggestions / Fiction Suggestions / Mike C.
Format Paperback
ISBN 9781590202623
In the space of twenty years Ireland has gone from a land of high unemployment and emigration to one of the five richest countries in the world. The stories in Donavan’s Young Irelanders magnify the New Ireland and illuminate how the Irish are coping with its rewards and pressures: immigration, mid-life crisis, adultery and divorce, a lost sense of place and history, and of course, what to do with all that prosperity. This is an important new chapter in the career of a top-flight literary writer.
