Private histories : the writing of Irish-Americans, 1900-1935 / by Ron Ebest.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, Description: xi, 319 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0268027714
  • 9780268027711
  • 0268027722
  • 9780268027728
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Private histories.DDC classification:
  • 810.9/89162/09041 22
LOC classification:
  • PS153.I78 E24 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
Fathers : violent recourses -- Mothers : "turned down hard I've been" -- Daughters and sons : verbal massacre -- Noel Coward and Mrs. Griffin -- An innocent bystander of the western world -- Septic origins -- Craig's wife -- Sad warped Sisters and Battling Berthas -- Le premier pas -- A joy and a study -- Fences, goats, and vegetable gardens -- Green thumb in the city -- The fastest runner on Sixty-first Street -- Three chairs for Mr. Murphy.
Summary: This book is a complete literary history of the American Irish during the first part of the twentieth century. -- Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-316) and index.

Fathers : violent recourses -- Mothers : "turned down hard I've been" -- Daughters and sons : verbal massacre -- Noel Coward and Mrs. Griffin -- An innocent bystander of the western world -- Septic origins -- Craig's wife -- Sad warped Sisters and Battling Berthas -- Le premier pas -- A joy and a study -- Fences, goats, and vegetable gardens -- Green thumb in the city -- The fastest runner on Sixty-first Street -- Three chairs for Mr. Murphy.

This book is a complete literary history of the American Irish during the first part of the twentieth century. -- Publisher description.

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