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Ten Thousand Saints raises fascinating problems that take us beyond the frontiers of recorded history to the remote movements of European peoples
as is often assumed
His knowledge of local birds and fish was as encyclopaedic and forensic as his grasp of place names
Through the author’s eyes
is a tour de force of storytelling
Charlie Chaplin's Wishbone Shane Tivenan Ten Thousand Saints raises fascinatingThese twelve masterful short stories are by one of Irelands leading practitioners of the art (previous collections include Adventures in a Bathyscope, 1998, and Lipstick on the Host, 1992). Aidan Mathews is a writer worthy of Joyce, whose condensed language conveys learning, sophistication, true feeling and poignancy. The range of subject matter is conveyed in the story titles: Charlie Chaplins Wishbone, Access, Barber Surgeons, Waking a Jew, Cuba,