Product Description
Out of touch for years, a poet and a psychic meet on an Irish country road, when he stops to give her a ride. Molly tells Paddy she now works for a psychic telephone line and is earning top money. He hears about the problems and dilemmas of her clients, and especially about Stanley, a dwarf with a Bono fetish.
A few months later Molly calls Paddy, and asks for help with a situation: Stanley has become a DJ and is doing a residency at a local resort. He wants to meet his psychic and the prospect is unsettling her. So she asks Paddy to be her escort. He agrees, and takes her to see the DJ. The meeting goes haywire and thus begins a love story and the bursting open of Stanley Huffington’s secret life.
Set in rural Ireland, Dublin, Barcelona and elsewhere, The Poet, the Psychic and the Knave, is a beautifully crafted novella. Told in alternating voices of the poet, psychic, dwarf and narrator, it a story with humor, poignancy and misguided redemption.
Praise for Eddie Stack’s writing —
"Variously fantastic, comic, elegiac and nostalgic, Mr. Stack's fiction is versatile and engaging...a vivid, compassionate, authentic voice...securing (him) a place in the celebrated tradition of his country's storytelling." New York Times Book Review
"The fantastical and the everyday combine with wit, sharpness and brio...Never sentimental, often funny, always accurate, this is pithy, finely-tuned writing of a high order." The Observer (UK)
"Exceptionally fine tuned...an authentic voice of the migrant Irish."
San Francisco Chronicle.
A few months later Molly calls Paddy, and asks for help with a situation: Stanley has become a DJ and is doing a residency at a local resort. He wants to meet his psychic and the prospect is unsettling her. So she asks Paddy to be her escort. He agrees, and takes her to see the DJ. The meeting goes haywire and thus begins a love story and the bursting open of Stanley Huffington’s secret life.
Set in rural Ireland, Dublin, Barcelona and elsewhere, The Poet, the Psychic and the Knave, is a beautifully crafted novella. Told in alternating voices of the poet, psychic, dwarf and narrator, it a story with humor, poignancy and misguided redemption.
Praise for Eddie Stack’s writing —
"Variously fantastic, comic, elegiac and nostalgic, Mr. Stack's fiction is versatile and engaging...a vivid, compassionate, authentic voice...securing (him) a place in the celebrated tradition of his country's storytelling." New York Times Book Review
"The fantastical and the everyday combine with wit, sharpness and brio...Never sentimental, often funny, always accurate, this is pithy, finely-tuned writing of a high order." The Observer (UK)
"Exceptionally fine tuned...an authentic voice of the migrant Irish."
San Francisco Chronicle.
