Studies in Short Fiction, September 22nd, 1997
WALKING THE DOG AND OTHER STORIES by Bernard MacLaverty. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995. 198 pages. $20.
Bernard MacLaverty's fourth collection of stories begins not with a short story but with this vignette:
"This is a story with a trick beginning." Your man put down his pen and considered the possibility that if he left this as the only sentence then his story would also have a trick ending.
In addition to this piece, entitled "On the Art of the Short Story," there are nine other vignettes interspersed between, and framing, the nine stories in the collection. The vignettes ha...
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