{"product_id":"9781574413281","title":"Irish Girl: Stories","description":"Inside Tim Johnston's Irish Girl, readers will find spellbinding stories of loss, absence, and the devastating effects of chance-of what happens when the unthinkable bad luck of other people, of other towns, becomes our bad luck, our town. Taut, lucid, and engrossing, provocative and dark-and often darkly funny-these stories have much to offer the lover of literary fiction as well as the reader who just loves a great story. \"It's dark in here, but brilliant. Tim Johnston is as wise as he is original, and his stories are impossible to forget.\"-David Sedaris \"This is white-knuckle prose; it means what it says and it says what it means. Not that I count words, but when an image can be etched in fewer than ten, I sit up and take notice. When an image is limned in fewer than five words, I pretty near shiver. The stories in Irish Girl provide more shiver per page than most stories provide in twenty.\"-Janet Peery, judge and author of The River Beyond the World","brand":"University of North Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128690491632,"sku":"9781574413281","price":10.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781574413281_p0.jpg?v=1763782546","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781574413281","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}