Young Skins, Colin Barrett’s debut work, has won the Guardian First Book Award, The Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and was longlisted for the Folio Prize. It has just been published in the United States to a rave review in the New York Times on March 12th, which predicts that never mind the bestseller list, Young Skins is destined to end up on the curriculum. “It lives up to its laurels,” writes John Williams, who admires Barrett's “exact and poetic” style and “striking maturity”, observing: “what separates his tough characters from those written by others is how carefully he applies the details that soften their edges”. There is one...
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