Best known for her biographies of Granuaile -Grace O’Malley - now the subject of a major new musical The Pirate Queen for which she is Consultant - Eleanor Countess of Desmond, Margaret Burke Sheridan, Prince Ranjitsinhji etc, Finding Tom Cruise and Other Stories is the first collection of short stories from author Anne Chambers.
From Key West to Kathmandu, from the War of Independence to small-town life in the West of Ireland in the 1960s, the stories vary in theme, colour character and place. Anne Chambers casts her net wide as her stories delve beneath a range of emotions from rejection and loss to love and courage.
I was always drawn towards the short-story format and the challenge of telling a story within the confines of that structure, as well as the diversity of both subject matter, location and drama it affords the writer. It is the ideal structure to explore, analyse and attempt to understand the philosophy and condition of human nature. I have been working towards this collection over a period of time. The stories emanate from personal experience, from literature and from history and I hope they strike a chord with readers. Anne Chambers
The Journey Home from the collection was short-listed for the 2005 Hennessy Literary Awards.
Tom Cruise and Other Stories by Anne Chambers is available from 2 October 2006 from bookshops or directly by credit card from www.ashfieldpress.com Price: 10.99Euro in paper back (plus postage)
Praise for Tom Cruise
"The characters in the stories…share a common inner voice seeking expiations, solutions, guidance. This intimate collection confirms Chambers among our most incisive and flexible writers." The Irish Times.
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