By Salt Water - New Island New Fiction Author:Angela Bourke Bourke's stories have been published in Ireland and the U. S. She writes with great delicacy and skill, and won the Frank O'Connnor Award for Short Fiction in 1992. In this memorable collection the salt water""is not only the sea, but tears, sweat, and our amniotic pool. Often on the brink, Bourke's female characters encounter life's lessons in ... more »a wide variety of landscapes: shadows of cruelty and mortality in the back lanes of a 1960s Dublin to affairs of the heart in the U.S., Europe, and Ireland in the 1990s. These women are struggling to find their way, and themselves, in a world they cannot comprehend. In doing so, they discover many ways to tell a story.« less