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Walking the Dog and Other Stories (Record no. 3463)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780099284888
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 823.91
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name MacLaverty, Bernard
9 (RLIN) 369583
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Walking the Dog and Other Stories
Statement of responsibility, etc. MacLaverty, Bernard
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. United Kingdom;
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Vintage Publishing;
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1999
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 208 Pages;
Other physical details Paperback
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. The long-awaited new collection from Bernard MacLaverty examines worlds in collision, relationships fragmenting, innocence face to face with real life, real death. A Catholic schoolboy minding goal has a theological debate with a B-Special; a chess game in Spain is a catalyst for grief and redemption; a Belfast man out walking his dog is kidnapped at gunpoint and told to say his ABC...Interwoven through the book are wry, elliptical 'stories within stories' about fiction and the writing of it, featuring 'your man' -a comically beleaguered alter ego. Acting as foils to the brilliance of the real thing, these very short pieces point up the tough lyricism of MacLaverty's work. As always, his writing is vivid, exact and pellucid, his characters perfectly observed, the surface of the prose deceptively still. It is only once we enter the world of the stories that we begin to make out the huge shapes that move there: loss, love, disappointment, fierce joy. WALKING THE DOG has been worth waiting for: it is a powerful, honest and moving book by one of the great storytellers of our age.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Short stories
9 (RLIN) 369584
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
9 (RLIN) 369585
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Karachi Karachi Adult Fiction 12/07/2016 1 823.91 PKLC003766 11/11/2017 12/07/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 3 16/08/2017
    Dewey Decimal Classification     Lahore Lahore Adult Fiction 27/04/2016   823.91 PKLC015555 27/04/2016 27/04/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17