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    Tales And Imaginings
    Tales And Imaginings
    Tales And Imaginings
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    Tales And Imaginings

    By Tim Robinson

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    From the two volumes of Stones of Aran to the essays collected in Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara and My Time in Space, Tim Robinson has established himself as one of the great non-fiction writers at work in the English language. In light of this, Tales and Imaginings, a collection of imaginative writings from five decades, might seem a profound departure, but to read it is to encounter anew the integrity and connectedness of Robinson’s body of work. In the earliest stories gathered here, we recognize their author as the young Robinson, doing National Service in Malaya, whom we encountered in two searching autobiographical essays from My Time in Space; reading the most recent piece, ‘Three Notes on the Elgin Marbles’, we are reminded of Robinson’s essay on his work as a visual artist and its examination of the role of the museum. In between are stories and imaginative essays that engage in unexpected ways with the West of Ireland landscapes Robinson has described so memorably in his previous books. Most of these pieces straddle recognizable genres; for example ‘Orion the Hunter’, which can easily be read as fiction, was selected for The Best American Essays 1998. Tim Robinson’s non-fiction writings brilliantly transcend established disciplines and styles, and he has always shown himself to be an imaginative writer of the calibre of Borges and of Sebald. Tales and Imaginings confirms that achievement.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Lilliput Press
    Release dateOct 21, 2002
    ISBN9781843512868
    Tales And Imaginings
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    Tim Robinson

    Tim Robinson illustrated Two Miserable Presidents, Which Way to the Wild West and King George: What Was His Problem? from Roaring Brook Press.  

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