Bibliograph

Cabbage and bones, an anthology of Irish American women's fiction, edited and with an introduction by Caledonia Kearns ; foreword by Maureen Howard

Type

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Cabbage and bones, an anthology of Irish American women's fiction, edited and with an introduction by Caledonia Kearns ; foreword by Maureen Howard

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Cabbage and bones

Oclc number

36727526

Responsibility statement

edited and with an introduction by Caledonia Kearns ; foreword by Maureen Howard

Sub title

an anthology of Irish American women's fiction

Summary

An anthology of fiction written in this century by Irish-American women. The subjects include religion, family, ethnicity and lesbianism. The writers are known and unknown, and the settings are on both sides of the Atlantic

Table Of Contents

Noel Coward and Mrs. Griffin / Ruth McKenney -- C.Y.E. / Mary McCarthy -- Excerpt from The parish and the hill / Mary Doyle Curran -- Excerpt from Hour of spring / Mary Deasy -- Excerpt from Bridgeport bus / Maureen Howard -- Life after death / Elizabeth Cullinan -- One of them gets married / Jean McGarry -- The lover of horses / Tess Gallagher -- Nijinsky / Maura Stanton -- Queen wintergreen / Alice Fulton -- Excerpt from At weddings and wakes / Alice McDermott -- Mary's departure / Kathleen Ford -- My father's boat / Mary McGarry Morris -- My father's alcoholism / Eileen Myles -- Excerpt from One true thing / Anna Quindlen -- Versus / Jennifer C Cornell -- Pork chops / Eileen FitzGerald -- City life / Mary Gordon -- Daily affirmations / Erin McGraw -- Famine fever / Helena Mulkerns -- Achill ancestors and a stranger / Maureen Brady -- Excerpt from The map of Ireland / Stephanie Grant -- The other woman / Valerie Sayers -- How Ireland lost the World Cup / Annie Callan

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