Bernard MacLaverty 
Matters of Life and Death: Stories [EPUB ebook] 

’Mac Laverty’s tales are poised and beautifully balanced, outward yet intimate, graced by both subtlety and substance.’—The Independent

A new book from Bernard Mac Laverty is a cause for celebration, but
Matters of Life and Death is more than that. It is the finest collection yet from a contemporary master of the form.
Beginning with the sudden terror of a family caught up in shocking sectarian violence, and ending with the whiteout of an Iowa blizzard and the fear of losing your way very far from home, this collection is about bonds made and broken, secret and known. In the extraordinary story 'Up the Coast, ’ a landscape painter discovers a place that makes her, finally, feel whole, only to have that communion shattered by an arbitrary act of aggression that will resonate throughout her life.
Written with effortless skill and empathy, these stories are hauntingly real. Mac Laverty’s perfect attention to every detail, every nuance of idiom and character, remakes the world for us here on the page.

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Bernard Mac Laverty is the author of five previous collections of stories and five novels, including Grace Notes, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Midwinter Break, shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. Born in Ireland, he now lives in Glasgow, Scotland.