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|  | | A Certain Place of Dreams
More than four dozen pieces of microfiction set in (or conceptually around) the northern Irish city of Derry explore an edge of the world that will keep you enthralled.
Begin with a child born in a city that would achieve late 20th century notoriety at the centre of the Irish "troubles" - mix in a character as desperate to escape his circumstances as he is in love with his homeland - and tell the tale through dozens of gemlike "very short stories" that combine extraordinary detail with wondrous language, and you have A Certain Place of Dreams.
The stories may wander to Dublin, and even New York, but they remain embedded in the rich wet soil of Ireland's oldest, most fabled city. | |  | | The Drool Room
A child struggling with dyslexia, ADHD, and family problems battles his way to adulthood in this remarkable novel-in-stories.
from reviewer Kurt Ochshorn:
"One cannot easily dismiss the iconic similarities between the cover of The Drool Room and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. The starkly lit classroom, at once familiar yet ominous with all the fears that a young child holds about going into the strange world and Kubrick's fluorescent vision of terror. Terror doesn't hide in the dark here- as with little Danny, it's in the mind, front and center.
"And like Danny's infamous, "redrum" with it's dyslexic construction and backwards letters, The Drool Room's cover title lets you know that this is a child' |
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