Oisin Fagan has a remarkable gift for language, as was first seen in the excellent Hostages, his short story collection. In Nobber, his debut novel, he creates an amazing rag tag bunch of characters with a story set in Ireland during the plague. The writing is terrific, the setting of Nobber as the small town everyone converges in is /5(77). · Hostages by Oisín Fagan. Author:Oisín Fagan, Date: Aug,Views: Author:Oisín Fagan. Language: eng. Format: mobi. Publisher: New Island Books. Published: T+ Costellos. The first Irish Costello of the line, Alphonse Costello, left Calais, France in and arrived in Wexford after two days of severe seasickness. Hostages. by. Oisín Fagan. · Rating details · ratings · 10 reviews. And so I find myself staggering on the streets of Trim again as a thirty-three-year-old man infuriated by a history that is a joke I am trying to stop laughing at and bemoaning a future that I didn’t bother creating, knowing that all the dead peasants who precede me aren’t allotted a word a corpse, and that if the dead could speak they /5(10).
Hostages. Oisín Fagan. Head of Zeus Ltd, Aug 9, - Fiction - pages. 0 Reviews. A bomb is born, lives and dies in a demented rural school; Ireland experiences a rain of corpses falling from the sky; a strange tribal matriarchy on the banks of the River Boyne is threatened with extermination. In these five long stories the world breaks. Oisín Fagan has had short fiction published in The Stinging Fly, New Planet Cabaret and the anthology Young Irelanders, with work featured in the Irish Museum of Modern Art. In , he won the inaugural Penny Dreadful Novella Prize for The Hierophants. Hostages. A bomb is born, lives and dies in a demented rural school; Ireland experiences a rain of corpses falling from the sky; a strange tribal matriarchy on the banks of the River Boyne is threatened with extermination. In these five long stories the world breaks down in an endless cycle of hunger, despera.
Oisín Fagan’s debut short story collection comes with some high-profile recommendations from Jospeh O’Connor and Colin Barrett and he has since gained critical acclaim for his debut novel Nobber. Hostages consists of just five stories – which begin weird and get weirder – all set in a post-apocalyptic Ireland, or County Meath to be exact. I hesitate to call them science-fiction, but I suppose that’s what they are. Hostages. by. Oisín Fagan. · Rating details · ratings · 10 reviews. And so I find myself staggering on the streets of Trim again as a thirty-three-year-old man infuriated by a history that is a joke I am trying to stop laughing at and bemoaning a future that I didn’t bother creating, knowing that all the dead peasants who precede me aren’t allotted a word a corpse, and that if the dead could speak they would be screaming. Oisín Fagan. 8 November Oisín Fagan has had fiction published in The Stinging Fly, New Planet Cabaret and the anthology Young Irelanders. He won the inaugural Penny Dreadful Novella Prize for his novella The Heirophants. His debut collection of stories, Hostages, was published this year by New Island. He currently lives and works in Dublin.
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