Highly readable text lays foundation for critical study of celebrated author

A Different Story: The Writings of Colm Tóibín

An ideal introductory text for third-level students or for those who wish to place Colm Tóibín’s fiction in its wider context, Eibhear Walshe’s new critical study charts the Enniscorthy author’s evolution in highly readable fashion.

Beginning in 1987 with the publication of Tóibín’s first full-length book, Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border, Walshe traces the “shift away from nationalism” towards “other kinds of aesthetic and political freedoms” in his novels and short stories up to 2012’s The Testament of Mary.