W9 and Other Lives

First edition thus. 8vo. Pp. 250, [6 (publisher's ads)]. Red cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Jacket design by Susi Mawani. Originally published in a limited edition (without the stories Dead and Preserved in Amber) by Lagan Press, Belfast, in 1996.

Signed by Author to title-page.

A primer for the way we live now, in settings ranging from Cuba to Connemara, from the Mediterranean to London's Maida Vale. The offspring of two writers, Carlo Gébler published a poignant autobiography, Father and I: a memoir (2000), about Czech-Irish writer Ernest Gébler, while his relationship with his mother, emblematic Irish author Edna O'Brien, could best be described as 'strained'. "This is a collection of finely crafted stories from Irish author Gébler, son of Edna O'Brien. Gébler's finest quality is to take the ordinary and infuse it with the pain and misfortune that permeates everyday life. [...] Highly recommended." –Library Journal