Foreigners, Drunks and Babies

The stories brought together in Foreigners, Drunks and Babies cast the slanting light of a poet''s sensibility on the Imperial Academy of an ancient Eastern empire; detail the musical education of a northern realist parish priest and his sons; travel through the West of Ireland with a couple facing various extinctions; spy on the shadowy private life of a Cold War warrior; engage in hand-to-hand f...