Pictures by Goya and Other Stories

This collection of both new and previously published stories by Vincent O'Sullivan brings together some of his best work in the genre. The characters in these sharply observed stories find themselves at points of crisis - domestic, emotional and sometimes comic. In Pictures by Goya, the title story, a wife struggles to cope with her fading marriage and her affair with the family doctor, her husband s best friend. When her husband is diagnosed with cancer, the contradictions in her life stretch her almost to breaking point. Then her husband is told he ll fully recover . . . In usual O'Sullivan fashion, characters are often presented through their interior lives, and often more than one character is presented in this way in the same narrative. His cleverly structured stories probe the boundaries of experience and recollection and illuminate his characters with a hard-edged compassion.O'Sullivan, Vincent is the author of 'Pictures by Goya and Other Stories ', published 2006 under ISBN 9780143020554 and ISBN 0143020552.