| Description |
xii, 237 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Gordon Snell -- Watery lanes / Shane Connaughton -- Dot on the i / Jenny Roche -- When Grania grows up / Maeve Binchy -- One day when we were young / Vincent Banville -- Saying goodbye / Tony Hickey -- On the verge of extinction / Peter Cunningham -- A headstrong girl / Ita Daly -- To dream of white horses / June Considine -- Good girl / Marita Conlon-McKenna -- Landlocked / Helena Mulkerns -- Thicker than water / Emma Donoghue -- Off ya go, so / Chris Lynch. |
| Summary |
Twelve remarkable coming of age stories capture both the "old", beguiling Ireland and its new energy today. Stories tell of a love so strong it makes the stars shine in daylight; how Catholic and Protestant hostilities burn away a new romance; the hidden longing of a past summer; a waitressing job in Texas that offers a glimpse of the harsh "dream" of immigrant life. In Emma Donoghue's title story, Mammy's second wedding brings out the bloody truth between sisters. Maeve Binchy and Ita Daly tell of old secrets cast off at last, and Chris Lynch shows how a young couple's journey to an abortion clinic in Liverpool leads to a painful awakening of deepest feelings. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo. |
| Subject |
Short stories, English.
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Short stories, English. |
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Short stories, English.
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English fiction -- Irish authors.
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English fiction -- Irish authors. |
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Maturation (Psychology) -- Fiction.
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Maturation (Psychology) |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Subject |
Short stories, American.
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Short stories, American. |
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Short stories, American.
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American fiction -- Irish American authors.
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American fiction -- Irish American authors. |
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Ireland -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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Ireland. |
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Manners and customs. |
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Irish Americans -- Fiction.
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Irish Americans. |
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Youth -- Fiction.
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Youth. |
| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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| Subject |
Youth. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Snell, Gordon.
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| ISBN |
0385325711 |
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9780385325714 |
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