And finally, my love and thanks to my family, for their unending support and encouragement: Martin, Kate, Liam and Ellen; Yann Donnelly; Ying Tai Chang; and my parents, Liam and Regina. Because of them, I’m the luckiest person I know.
About the Author
BILLY O’CALLAGHAN is the author of three short story collections—In Exile, In Too Deep, and The Things We Lose, The Things We Leave Behind, which received the Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Award and was selected as Cork’s One City, One Book for 2017—and the novels The Dead House and My Coney Island Baby. His story “The Boatman” was shortlisted for the 2016 Costa Short Story Award. He lives in Cork, Ireland, where he was born and raised.
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Also by Billy O’Callaghan
(STORIES)
In Exile
In Too Deep
The Things We Lose, The Things We Leave Behind
(NOVELS)
The Dead House
My Coney Island Baby
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
THE BOATMAN AND OTHER STORIES. Copyright © 2020 by Billy O’Callaghan. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Originally published as The Boatman and Other Stories in Great Britain in 2020 by Jonathan Cape.
FIRST U.S. EDITION
Digital Edition APRIL 2020 ISBN: 978-0-06-285661-6
Version 03112020
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-285660-9 (pbk.)
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