Sweet Old World: New & Selected Stories - Paperback

by Brian Leyden (Author)

Profoundly moving, funny and authentic, Sweet Old World is an unputdownable read. In a story collection spanning three decades Brian Leyden is a master at evoking time and place and people with a voice that is consistently wise, observant and wonderfully entertaining. Irish family and social life are seen afresh and the intimate and familiar made unforgettable. Every one of these New & Selected stories feels like a homecoming. Writer Bernard MacLaverty says, Sweet Old World is "a way of life remembered with precision and love and a great deal of wit. 'The Sun Room' which ends the book is remarkable and deeply moving."

Author Biography

Brian Leyden has published the best selling memoir The Home Place, and the novel Summer of '63. He has written extensively about Ireland for RTÉ Radio One's Sunday Miscellany. His radio documentary work includes No Meadows in Manhattan, Even the Walls Were Sweatin', The Closing of the Gaiety Cinema in Carrick-on-Shannon and most recently, An Irish Station Mass. He has been a guest of 'Ireland and its Diaspora Writers and Musicians Tour of Germany', 'The Green Ink Festival', London, 'The Dublin Writers Festival', and the 'Newport Festival Rhode Island'. He co-wrote the original screenplay for the Irish feature film Black Ice.