At the Edge of the Western Wave

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This collection catches perfectly that special sense of rural Ireland which might be described as mixture of raw satirical humor, tragedy, and a kind of yearning for love and connection in a society that feels a constant tension between materialism and spirituality. "At the Edge of the Western Wave" is a big and sweeping enough collection to be able to accommodate these themes and their nuances: a shop-front, a wink of light, an Hiberno-English phrase, a name, a place name--and evoke a whole way of life.