Twenty-Twenty Vision

'"During that time with you I was more alive and more unhappy than I had ever been" says a woman speaking of her affair with a married man in this collection of interlinking short stories. The line is sharp, pitiless and heartbreaking, just like everything else in this marvellous book.'

-- Carlo Gebler

'Mary Morrissy always writes with great insight, deep humanity and an oftentimes acerbic eye. These stories are assured little portraits of very ordinary people finding pathos, beauty and profundity in their very ordinary lives. I challenge you not to see something of yourself reflected here.'

-- Jan Carson

'I adore Mary Morrissy's stories. Fresh, deft, succinct, each one is like a dart to the heart. There is also the particular pleasure, here as in Prosperity Drive, of encountering the same characters in different ways, sometimes fleetingly, sometimes from a completely opposing perspective, complicating and deepening our relationships with them and giving an additional, satisfying and heartbreaking unity to this collection as a whole.'

-- Lucy Caldwell

'In Twenty-Twenty Vision, Mary Morrissy gives us deeply self-mining, gorgeously human characters, who miss neither tricks nor beats. Her players step with rueful intelligence – often hilariously – through the conundrums of ordinary but ruffled lives. This is insightful, vivid fiction from an accomplished storyteller who is, simply, one of our best.'

-- Nuala O'Co