Collected Stories Identity Beneath the façade of a

Beneath the façade of a land golden with opportunities dwell two destitutes shipped to Singapore in the late 1800s

an abandoned bridge populated by freaks and misfits

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struggling to be free of the past and the sins of the ancestors

Collected Stories Identity Beneath the façade of aCelebrating twenty years of rare accomplishment, The Collected Stories introduces American readers to a luminous and unforgettable writer of short fiction. The Irish writer Clare Boylan has been publishing compelling and captivating work for over twenty years. Though she is the author of six critically acclaimed novels, she remains one of the most original and exciting short story writers of our time. Like Alistair MacLeod, Alice Munro, and her