The Islands

Six Fictions

Fiction & Literature, Short Stories
Cover of the book The Islands by William Wall, University of Pittsburgh Press
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Author: William Wall ISBN: 9780822983132
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Publication: December 4, 2017
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press Language: English
Author: William Wall
ISBN: 9780822983132
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication: December 4, 2017
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English

WINNER OF THE 2017 DRUE HEINZ LITERATURE PRIZE
Selected by David Gates
 
William Wall is the first international winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize.
 

“Suddenly I see weeks that are like years stretch out before me. Islands are, more than anything else, places of deprivation.”

 
Jeannie, one of the sisters featured in The Islands, comes to this realization at the age of six or seven, as her father leaves their island home yet again to work on his latest book.

In this collection of interconnected stories, the beautiful and ravaging forces of sea and land collide with the forces of human nature, through isolation and family, love and loss, madness and revelation. The stories follow the lives of two sisters and the people who come and go in their lives, much like the tides. Dominated by the tragic loss of a third sister at a young age, their family spirals out of control. We witness three stages of the sisters’ lives, each taking place on an island—in southwest Ireland, southern England, and the Bay of Naples. Beautifully and sparsely written, the stories deeply evoke landscape and character, and are suffused with a keen eye for detail and metaphor.

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WINNER OF THE 2017 DRUE HEINZ LITERATURE PRIZE
Selected by David Gates
 
William Wall is the first international winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize.
 

“Suddenly I see weeks that are like years stretch out before me. Islands are, more than anything else, places of deprivation.”

 
Jeannie, one of the sisters featured in The Islands, comes to this realization at the age of six or seven, as her father leaves their island home yet again to work on his latest book.

In this collection of interconnected stories, the beautiful and ravaging forces of sea and land collide with the forces of human nature, through isolation and family, love and loss, madness and revelation. The stories follow the lives of two sisters and the people who come and go in their lives, much like the tides. Dominated by the tragic loss of a third sister at a young age, their family spirals out of control. We witness three stages of the sisters’ lives, each taking place on an island—in southwest Ireland, southern England, and the Bay of Naples. Beautifully and sparsely written, the stories deeply evoke landscape and character, and are suffused with a keen eye for detail and metaphor.

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