Ranging from urgently contemporary London and Dublin to New York's Lower East Side in the nineteenth century, from dark comedy to poignancy, from the wryly provocative to the quietly beautiful, these stories - Joseph O'Connor's first collection in more than twenty years - offer a gathering of dreamers and lost souls who contend with the confusions of living. Here are men without women, children parenting...
1 Introduction - The Philadelphia Orchestra 2 Royal March Of The Lion - Johnny Morris 3 Cocks And Hens - The Philadelphia Orchestra 4 Wild Asses - The Philadelphia Orchestra 5 The Tortoise - The Philadelphia Orchestra 6 Elephants - The Philadelphia Orchestra 7 Kangaroos - The Philadelphia Orchestra 8 Aquarium - The Philadelphia Orchestra 9 People With Long Ears - The Philadelphia Orchestra 10 The Cuckoo In...