{"product_id":"the-comets-eoin-mcnamee-9781529449969","title":"The Comets","description":"\u003cp\u003e'For over thirty years, Eoin McNamee has been one of the outstanding writers of his generation' David Peace\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e 'McNamee's books are intense and compressed, but so carefully worked that they read smoothly' The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Eoin McNamee is the poet laureate of the visionary dark' Colum McCann\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy the author of The Bureau and Resurrection Man, a complete collection of Eoin McNamee's shorter fiction, published in one volume for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Each of these stories is a world to itself, steeped in eerie beauty. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA frosty northern witch changes the life of a twelve-year-old girl by teaching her that women keep their dreams in their hair. The wondrous souls of the dead become bright comets arcing over a seaside town. A girl on fire runs through the snow, and a woman on the run is transformed into an ice queen by her own will. Lives unravel and are remade and if they are lost they are lost to beauty. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt once realist and magical, contemporary and timeless, The Comets confirms Eoin McNamee's status as one of Ireland's greatest prose stylists and a storyteller of inalienable power.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eoin McNamee","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":67680169296115,"sku":"9781529449969","price":32.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781529449969.jpg?v=1791486430","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-comets-eoin-mcnamee-9781529449969","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}