The Glimmering Girl: A Collection of Short Stories

Clare Ryan is an Irish writer, from Cork city, who sojourns in Florida for months each year where she has also garnered an audience for her novels and short stories.The Glimmering Girl is her new collection of short stories with themes of life and death, and even beyond.This collection opens with a long, short story, The Glimmering Girl, about a young girl's life in two acts, over many years, as she wanders the streets of a Cork city neighbourhood, yearning to rest in peace. These fourteen short stories bring to life the good, the bad and the sad, of a variety of characters in locations as diverse as Ireland, and America.She knows how to strike the match that sets a story on fire. You've just stumbled on a little book of gems. Review by Fay Graetz, Author and Playwright, Fort Myers, Fl."Clare Ryan has an astonishing storytelling voice that harkens back to Irish luminaries like Frank O'Connor and John McGahern" Michael Collins, American-based Booker short-listed Novelist.

Author: Clare Ryan

Publisher: Independently Published

Publication Date: 43897

Number of Pages: 230 pages

Binding: Fiction

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ISBN-13: 9798622200861