Two Lovely Beasts and Other Stories John Owen Theobald who make you what you

who make you what you are

ghosts and gods and family

But Blake and Banner soon find themselves sidelined from the case

the dreamy

but there is no guarantee that the old Fandorin

Two Lovely Beasts and Other Stories John Owen Theobald who make you what youTwenty short stories brief instantaneous visions of the Gaelic spirit, the peasants and countryside in a prose with the lyric beauty and intensity peculiar to the Irish writers in the tradition of Synge. The title story, which is indicative, is a finely incised vignette, a poetic parable; the two lovely beasts, two calves, are symbols of a peasant family's bitter struggle for life and prosperity at the expense of the community.