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Flying south for his father's funeral, the author recalls his family's experiences with alcoholism and his own impressions of the man's aggressive, drunken ways
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9781568383392 | Hazelden, October 1, 1999, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Flying south for his father's funeral, the author recalls his family's experiences with alcoholism and his own impressions of the man's aggressive, drunken ways
Product Description: Drama. Irish American Studies. A one-act play that originally ran off-broadway for five years, OUR FATHER is about sons lamenting the death of their father at an Irish wake in a New York City bar. "The script is intellectual, brilliant and irreverently caustic...read more
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9781881471141 | Spuyten Duyvil, June 1, 1997, cover price $10.01 | About this edition: Drama.
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9781881471158 | Spuyten Duyvil, June 1, 1997, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Drama.
Product Description: In Michael Stephens's words, "the net these pieces fall into is that world of the Irish American, the mick, the monkey face, the potato picker, the bog man." More to the point, it is the Irish of Stephens's youth, of Brooklyn's working-poor slums, under whose influence he composed these essays...read more
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9780820316161 | Univ of Georgia Pr, April 1, 1994, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In Michael Stephens's words, "the net these pieces fall into is that world of the Irish American, the mick, the monkey face, the potato picker, the bog man.
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9781564780379 | Dalkey Archive Pr, March 1, 1994, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The sixteen Coole children return to Brooklyn for their father's funeral and reminisce about the past
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9781881471059 | Spuyten Duyvil, February 1, 1993, cover price $10.00
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9780914610861 | Hanging Loose Pr, February 1, 1992, cover price $18.00
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9780914610854 | Hanging Loose Pr, December 1, 1991, cover price $10.00
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9780394574820 | Random House Inc, February 1, 1990, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Relates the author's experiences while staying with his wife's family in South Korea, focusing on the power of this vital social unit
Product Description: One of Americaâs best young writers preÂsents a critical appreciation of voice in short fiction, using drama and poetry to frame his discussion. Discussing contemporary voice in American fiction, Stephens says: ÂThere is a cadence which the writer steals from the actual, shaping this rhythm into the voice of fiction...read more
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9780809312313 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, April 1, 1986, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: One of Americaâs best young writers preÂsents a critical appreciation of voice in short fiction, using drama and poetry to frame his discussion.
Product Description: Coole"" is a country, a madhouse, cloud-cuckooland. . . a family. An incredible, disgusting, glorious family of Long Island Irish psychotic drunken dreamers, natural communists and slobs. And this book, a love-hate song to them, becomes an upside-down accordion riff on the whole idea of family or tribe, ethnic and American...read more
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9780916583026 | Dalkey Archive Pr, November 1, 1984, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Coole"" is a country, a madhouse, cloud-cuckooland.
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9780916583033 | Dalkey Archive Pr, November 1, 1984, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Coole"" is a country, a madhouse, cloud-cuckooland.
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