A view from Calvary, and other stories

by Patrick Boyle

191 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1976

About the author

Boyle was born in 1905 in Ballymoney, Co. Antrim. He worked for the Ulster Bank in Donegal and Wexford. He began writing when he was in his forties. His first collection of short stories, At Night All Cats are Grey, was published in 1966. He also wrote a novel, Like Any Other Man, published in the same year. These two books were followed by two more collections of stories, All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye (1969), and A View from Calvary (1976). He was a member of the Irish Academy of Letters. He died in 1982.

Reviews

[Patricia]

A View From Calvary contains seven short stories and a novella. Three of the short stories were new to me. I enjoyed The Maverick and Nocturne but got confused as to who was who at the start of A Day at the Sea so didn't read it.
I decided to leave the novella for now.