Orange Horses
ISBN-13: 9780993459207
Author(s): Maeve Kelly
Subjects: FA, FBA
Publisher: Tramp Press
Publisher Imprint: Tramp Press
Publication Date: 11-11-2016
Format: Paperback / softback
Availability: In stock
£12.00
About the book
The 20 stories that make up Orange Horses, first published as a collection in 1990, richly illustrate the plight of marginalised women in contemporary Irish society. Kelly draws from a variety of personalities and circumstances: an islander fights to eke out an existence for herself and her brother; a Traveller mourns the loss of her unborn child and struggles for economic independence; a nurse in London works to maintain her Irish identity. Orange Horses is a beautiful, sad and funny collection of stories of the undervalued, the oppressed and the quietly heroic.