{"product_id":"matters-of-life-and-death-bernard-maclaverty","title":"Matters of Life and Death, Bernard Maclaverty","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe finest short story collection yet from a contemporary master of the form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA new book of stories from Bernard MacLaverty is a cause for celebration, but Matters of Life and Death is — without question — the finest collection yet from a contemporary master of the form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning with the sudden, nauseating terror of a family caught up in an explosion of shocking sectarian violence and ending with the white-out of an Iowa blizzard and a different kind of fear: the fear of displacement, erasure, of losing your way — and yourself — very far from home, Matters of Life and Death is a book about bonds and connections, made and broken, secret and known. In the extraordinary long story, ‘Up the Coast’, a landscape painter discovers a place that makes her feel whole, finally, only to have that communion cruelly shattered by an arbitrary act of aggression — an act that will resonate through her work and her life from that moment on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVivid, beautifully controlled and written with effortless skill and empathy, these stories are object lessons in the art of short fiction: the author’s perfect eye and ear attending to every detail, every nuance of idiom and character, to remake the world for us, here on the page.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60565193523534,"sku":"9780099493037","price":6.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0842\/6546\/8238\/files\/9780099493037.jpg?v=1787915798","url":"https:\/\/littlelanebookshop.com\/products\/matters-of-life-and-death-bernard-maclaverty","provider":"Little Lane Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}