The Lonely Voice

Excellent read from an Irish writer I have got around to discovering her work. Very enjoyable and memorable.

I haven't been this excited about buying a book in a long time

The new edition of this book is beautiful, inside and out! As a recent winner of a Pushcart Prize for fiction, I'm so glad that "The Lonely Voice" is back in print so I can be inspired over and over again by Frank O'Connor and this classic work. I enjoyed the new introduction by Kevin Barry, but Lilliput Press deserves most of the accolades for providing an affordable version of such an important title over expensive second-hand options on the internet. Also, the ease of the whole process, including purchasing and shipping, which got the book to me in the states, from Dublin, in less than a week. Now I don't have to wait until September to get it on Amazon.

The Lonely Voice

I was delighted to see that this 'classic' had been re-published by The Lilliput Press. A very timely re-issue of it when writing in Ireland has changed so radically since O'Connor's generation of writers and Ireland would now be unrecognizable to that generation because of recent seismic cultural and social changes. Very well worth re-reading with our contemporary cultural baggage!