'Snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of
the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the
Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark
mutinous Shannon waves.'
From a child grappling with the death of a fallen priest, to a young
woman's dilemma over whether to elope to Argentina with her lover, to
the dance party at which a man discovers just how little he really knows
about his wife, these fifteen stories bring the gritty realism of
existence in Joyce's native Dublin to life.