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O'Connor International Short Story Award-winning work, "Every story in the book is not afraid of the test of time." The writer has won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the British "Guardian" First Book Award for "The Young Man of Glenbay". The novel describes the lives and stories of young people in a small Irish town. The cruel youth in it has caused ripples in the hearts of modern young people. The Young Man of Granby has all the marks of becoming a classic, and his story is a punch to the heart. "The Young People of Glenbay" is a collection of six short stories and a novella that takes readers into a fictional country town called Glenbay during a period of economic boom and recession in contemporary Ireland. Here, young people dominate small town life. Young drivers chase each other on country roads; lovers wander in the woods at midnight; after the bar closes at midnight, boys and girls linger in the cold wind. Some people make a last-ditch effort for love, some cast a net of love and some fall in love, some hurt and some seek revenge, some lick their wounds alone, and some feel sad. There is no pastoral youth plot in Barrett's works. There is lust, violence, and death in his stories, but he also does not shy away from ordinaryness, weakness, innocence, and kindness. You will see the young people's passion and willfulness, followed by the cracks and injuries in growth, then the frustration and death of youth, and finally looking back with regret.