bokomslag No Harm Done
Familj

No Harm Done

Jean McGarry

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  • 242 sidor
  • 2017
A collection of fifteen stories, Jean McGarrys No Harm Done, depicts family life at its worst, best, and funniest, as if the author had conjoined the lunacy of Cold Comfort Farm with the bitter grievances of Dubliners. As the author writes in Strong Boy, this might be because every family, rich or poor, is roughage. The characters, gallant, goofy, gifted, and grim, include sickly mothers of a dozen children, boozy fathers with a gift of the gab, kids aspiring to be nuns and priests, or just to get out of town with a whole skin. A section is devoted to one marriage made in heaven: a Jewish psychoanalyst devoted to his ex-nun wife. Another set of stories reworks familiar fairy tales, setting them in the wild present. No Harm Done (whose title is Irish code for wishful thinking) concludes with a truce to the war between the sexes, and indeed a `solution to the tragicomedy that is marriage and family.
  • Författare: Jean McGarry
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781943150076
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 242
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2017-06-08
  • Förlag: Dalkey Archive Press