- O'Malley sets a haunting local mystery against the tense backdrop of a country tormented by bloodshed and deep schisms.- In the tradition of Seamus Deane and John McGahern, a stirring, beautifully written, but unsentimental portrait of an Irish boyhood.- Thomas O'Malley's work has appeared in l...
The players who had arrived too late sat at the tables and booths, waiting their turn. They sat impatiently and drank dime beers or bottles of tonic, and, lighting one cigarette after the other, they filled up the glass ashtrays before them. The ceiling fans were turned to their highest settings;...
It’s a book his mother had him read to him as a child, in both translation and Italian, and although he did not know the language, gradually, as he poured over the words, with their strange sounds and constructions, and spoke the words aloud, they began to make a strange and mystical sense to him...
Cal stared from the office window greasy with condensation, then took his coat and made his way down the back stairway with his car battery. The car had already left him stranded three times in the last week, and since the temperatures had plummeted, he wouldn’t leave it to chance. &n...