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The Dead Girls

Picador Classic

The Dead Girls( )
Author: Ibarguengoitia, Jorge
Introduction by: Toibin, Colm
Series title:Picador Classic Ser.
ISBN:978-1-5098-7017-2
Publication Date:Jul 2018
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Imprint:Picador
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $9.99
Book Description:

Inspired by true events, The Dead Girls is the story of the unexplained deaths of six young prostitutes, buried in the back yard of a small-town brothel.

Book Details
Pages:192
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):13 x 19.6 x 1.4 cm
Book Weight:0.18 Kilograms
Author Biography
Ibarguengoitia, Jorge (Author)
Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy, Ireland in 1955. He studied history and English at University College Dublin, earning his B.A. in 1975. After graduating he moved to Barcelona for three years and taught at the Dublin School of English.

In 1978 he returned to Dublin and began working on an M.A. in Modern English and American Literature. He wrote for In Dublin, Hibernia, and The Sunday Tribune. He became the Features Editor of In Dublin in 1981, and then a year later accepted the position of Editor for the Irish current affairs magazine Magill.

His first book, Walking Along the Border, was published in 1987 and his first novel, The South, was published in 1990. He wrote for The Sunday Independent as a drama or television critic and political commentator. He writes regularly for The London Review of Books.

He has written several other novels including The Story of the Night, The Blackwater Lightship, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary, and Nora Webster. The Heather Blazing received the 1993 Encore Award and The Master received the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Stonewall Book Award, and the Lambda Literary Award. He was short listed for the 2015 Folio Prize for his title Nora Webster.

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