The Girl from Donegal

Short stories offer the reader a wide variety of literary fare, the result of a flexibility not available in other genres. This diversity is aptly demonstrated in E. B. McKee's The Girl from Donegal, a mix of tales which might be compared to an assortment of chocolates: all are enjoyable, and each with a taste of its own. As the author weaves his way between settings as diverse as a luxury liner cruising the Atlantic, the Namibian desert in South Africa and Scarborough beach in Narragansett, R. I. the reader becomes acquainted with a memorable cast of characters. You meet the wronged woman with love on her lips, but vengeance in her heart; a student whose vocation gets derailed by the gust of an errant breeze; the Block Island girl, the handsome Nazi submariner - and their fateful meeting during WW2. These stories and others are written with a deft touch, understated wit and offered in an entertaining fashion. The Girl from Donegal follows McKee's two other books. DOC and Bloodletting to Binary.