The Collected Short Stories: Dermot Healy Japan the widening of possibilities—thus inevitably

the widening of possibilities—thus inevitably forcing the reader-critic to acknowledge the arbitrariness and artificiality of her responses

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The Collected Short Stories: Dermot Healy Japan the widening of possibilities—thus inevitablyBy Dermot Healy ISBN: 9781564786784 Publication Date: 10 16 2015 Like many of the great Irish writers before him, Dermot Healy first announced himself as a writer of intricate and innovative short stories. Healys stories are set in small town Ireland and its rural environs, and in the equally suffocating confines of the Irish expat communities in London. Throughout these texts, Healy demonstrates a deep sense of compassion towards the marginalized and