The Dogs of Inishere Cuban Literature series Biographical Note

Biographical Note

By Rikki Ducornet

At once a Festschrift

of the depths that shape one ordinary life

orphaned by history

The Dogs of Inishere Cuban Literature series Biographical NoteThe Dogs of Inishere collects stories from across Alannah Hopkins thirty year career as a fiction and travel writer. The stories presented here move from adolescence to middle age, sensitive always to the particular social, emotional, and intellectual challenges of the different phases of a life. An adolescent girl bristles against the gendered assumptions and expectations of mid 60s London. A young writer struggles to commit fully to the artists life