Books by Mary Costello
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English
review 1: I'm a great fan of short stories and know how hard they can be to get just right.This is a wonderful collection, people dancing about each other, trying and often failing to relate.Costello deals gently with her characters and although not much happens in stories here, there is a...
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English
review 1: I think the main problem was I did not have any rapport or sympathy with the protagonist Tess who seems incapable of doing other than fatalistically watch her life squandered. The events from rural Ireland to New York are contrived and I just felt irritated. Perhaps the author wa...