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Modern Irish-American Fiction: A Reader
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Syracuse Univ Pr
Publication date July 1, 1989
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780815602347
ISBN-10 0815602340
Dimensions 1 by 6.25 by 9 in.
Weight 0.90 lbs.
Original list price $19.95
Other format details university press
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Reflected in these writings from 21 Irish-Americans are the themes common to all immigrant literature, but from the authors' own ethnic point of view. The struggle for success forms the underlying structure in the stories by O'Hara, Curran and McCarthy; and the changing values the New World imposes on the indivudual are seen in Edwin O'Connor's "Grand Day for M. Garvey." Irish wit and black humor pepper all the stories as represented by Dunne's bartender-philosopher, "Dooley," and Donleavy's "Fairy Tale of New Yor." Catholicism is omnipresent and is often characterized by the priest, as in Fitzgerald's "Benediction," "Power's "Bill," and Flaherty's "Fogarty." Themes that have an immense effect on the characters' relationships are their difficulties in communicating with one another which Gill captures succinctly in "The Cemetery," and the repositioning of gender roles, so evident in Cullinan's "Life After Death" and in Costello's "Murphy's Xmas." Finally there are the intense, often contradictory feelings the characters have toward their homeland: Hamill's "Gift," illustrates the desire to rid Ireland of British rule, Gordon's "neighborhood," shows the immigrants' embarrassment over their origins. Editors Casey and Rhodes have organized these pieces chronologically, beginning at the turn of the century. Thus, the selections illustrate the progression if Irish-American literature and also fulfill the words of William Kennedy, who said of his own writing: "those who came before helped to show me how to turn experience into literature."

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Hardcover
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from Syracuse Univ Pr (July 1, 1989)
9780815624622 | details & prices | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.30 lbs | List price $45.00
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from Syracuse Univ Pr (July 1, 1989); titled "Modern Irish-American Fiction: A Reader"
9780815602347 | details & prices | 6.25 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $19.95
About: Reflected in these writings from 21 Irish-Americans are the themes common to all immigrant literature, but from the authors' own ethnic point of view.

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