Ethel Rohan

http://www.ethelrohan.com

Ethel Rohan is the author of the story collections Goodnight Nobody (forthcoming 2013) and Cut Through the Bone, the latter longlisted for The Story Prize. She is also the author of the chapbook, Hard to Say. Her work has or will appear in World Literature Today, Tin House Online, The Irish Times, The Rumpus, Post Road Magazine, and The Los Angeles Review, among many others.

Books by Ethel Rohan

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Book Reviews by Ethel Rohan

Image of Telling the Bees
Author(s):
Peggy Hesketh
Genre(s):
Genre Fiction, Genre Fiction, Genre Fiction

Telling the Bees

May 26, 2013
Reviewed by: 
Ethel Rohan

Peggy Hesketh’s debut novel Telling the Bees is a tender portrait of Albert Honig, a lifelong beekeeper and elderly bachelor.

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Author(s):
Tanis Rideout
Genre(s):
Genre Fiction, Genre Fiction, Genre Fiction

Above All Things

March 31, 2013
Reviewed by: 
Ethel Rohan

“Above All Things is a work as brilliant as sunlight bending off snow.”

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Image of Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes: A Memoir of Dublin in the 1950s (Memoirs of Dublin Book 1)
Author(s):
Martha Long
Genre(s):
Biography, Autobiography & Memoir, Irish

Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes: A Memoir of Dublin in the 1950s (Memoirs of Dublin)

December 31, 2012
Reviewed by: 
Ethel Rohan

“. . . a difficult, painful, and at times almost unbearable read. Yet this memoir should be widely read and discussed . . .”

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Author(s):
Allen Learst
Genre(s):
Short Stories

Dancing at the Gold Monkey

October 12, 2012
Reviewed by: 
Ethel Rohan

“Dr. Learst’s rapid-fire collection demands we not look away from the horrors of war but stare long and hard into the carnage.”

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