Against the setting of modern-day Ireland, a collection of short fiction by the author of Antarctica explores the themes of despair and desire in the title story, in which a priest recalls his own love affair with the bride while performing the marriage ceremony, and "The Long and Painful Death," in which a writer working in Heinrich Böll''s old cottage is confronted by an unwelcome intruder. Original.
Against the setting of modern-day Ireland, a collection of short fiction by the author of Antarctica explores the themes of despair and desire in the title story, in which a priest recalls his own love affair with the bride while performing the marriage ceremony, and "The Long and Painful Death," in which a writer working in Heinrich Bl̲l's old cottage is confronted by an unwelcome intruder. Original.
