An anthology of McCabe's best short fiction over the last 30 years. The twelve stories, set close to the Irish border where the author, playwright and farmer makes his home, portray rural Ireland of the 19th and 20th centuries. Born in Glasgow in 1930, McCabe has lived and farmed on the Monaghan-Fermanagh border near Clones for 40 years. The fully realized stories are poetic but dark indeed.  (IRE173, $24.95)