Lauded by John Gardner, started reading the shorts in Dubliner.
Didn't care much for the first about the old priest. The second one was much better, the trepidation of the boy meeting the old queer man almost tactile in the words.
"The Dead": "The men that is now is only all palavar and what they can get out of you."
It's an amazing story. The ending is beautiful and.. not chilling, sad and gripping. Listen to "The American OST" by Herbert Grönemeyer while reading it, and lock everybody out. These are words that consume everything.
