Dinosaurs on other planets : stories
McLaughlin, Danielle, 1969-2017
Book
A woman battles bluebottles as she plots an ill-judged encounter with a stranger; a young husband commutes a treacherous route to his job in the city, fearful for the wife and small daughter he has left behind; a mother struggles to understand her nine-year-old son's obsession with dead birds and the apocalypse. In Danielle McLaughlin's stories, the world is both beautiful and alien. Men and women negotiate their surroundings as a tourist might navigate a distant country: watchfully, with a mixture of wonder and apprehension. Here are characters living lives in translation, ever at the mercy of distortions and misunderstandings, striving to make sense both of the spaces they inhabit and of the people they share them with.
Main title:
Dinosaurs on other planets : stories / Danielle McLaughlin.
Author:
McLaughlin, Danielle, 1969-, author
Imprint:
London : John Murray, 2017.
Collation:
197 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: Ireland: The Stinging Fly Press, 2015.
ISBN:
9781473613720 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92FICTION
Language:
English
BRN:
2451572