{"product_id":"to-avenge-a-dead-glacier-paperback","title":"To Avenge a Dead Glacier - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the RTÉ Francis McManus Short Story Prize, Shane Tivenan is a remarkable new talent, whose debut collection simmers with style, verve, tension and humor. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Throughout the stories in\u003ci\u003e To Avenge a Dead Glacier, \u003c\/i\u003e Tivenan explores the lives of Irish outsiders -characters living marginalized lives beyond the perimeters of their communities. For many of these characters, to integrate would mean changing in ways they cannot allow themselves to. In one story an Irish woman is committed to a mental asylum for attempting to assassinate the Italian dictator, Mussolini, shortly before the Italians shoot him themselves. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In another, a midlands graffiti artist, Dino Matcha, tries warning his townspeople through his throw-ups about the dangers of the way they are living, but neglects his own mind in the process. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the title story, a man mourns the loss and destruction of nature, and spends his days down a grassed laneway waiting for passers-by who he can try and convert to his way of seeing the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A ninety-two-year-old woman suffers from Charles Bonnet syndrome, and tries to celebrate her birthday in her nursing home in Elphin while fighting back the hallucinations brought on by her condition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A Donegal woman is ostracized from her family, has spent twenty years living homeless on the streets of Madrid, and is unsure of what to do when she is giving the possibility of a new home and love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e ​These are stories rich in the essential detail of human life, in the fraught exchanges that make up our every relationship, and very often of life lived beyond the confines of safety or simplicity.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eShane Tivenan grew up close to Athlone Town, County Roscommon. He studied Cultural Anthropology at Maynooth University. His fiction has appeared in The Stinging Fly, The London Magazine, and has been broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1. He was awarded the 2020 RTÉ Francis MacManus Prize, the 2024 John McGahern Award, and was selected for the Bridport Prize Anthology in 2023. His debut collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eTo Avenge a Dead Glacier\u003c\/i\u003e, will be published by The Lilliput Press in 2025.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 265\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 7.8 x 5.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 21, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47267281371385,"sku":"9781843519171","price":21.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/m72HEhwFIN9781843519171.webp?v=1768862713","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/to-avenge-a-dead-glacier-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}