Ranging from the grimly realistic to the fantastic, Goran’s stories examine lives so unheralded that only the Irish Club, Forbes Fieldwhere the Pirates break their hearts, and St. Agnes Churchwhere they attend school and prepare for eternityknow their joys and sorrows.
“Tales from the Irish Club presents a group of stories so well imagined that one can hardly tell them apart from life…They are meant to overheard, not heard, as if the reader were a child at a wedding eavesdropping on someone’s loquacious, slightly drunken aunt…I abandoned the Hibernian world of Lester Goran’s Pittsburgh with a sense of loss. Closing his book felt like driving away from my own boyhood city after a large Thanksgiving dinner, with improbable stories still echoing in my head. Tales from the Irish Club is a memorable work.”New York Times Book Review
Ranging from the grimly realistic to the fantastic, Goran’s stories examine lives so unheralded that only the Irish Club, Forbes Fieldwhere the Pirates break their hearts, and St. Agnes Churchwhere they attend school and prepare for eternityknow their joys and sorrows.
“Tales from the Irish Club presents a group of stories so well imagined that one can hardly tell them apart from life…They are meant to overheard, not heard, as if the reader were a child at a wedding eavesdropping on someone’s loquacious, slightly drunken aunt…I abandoned the Hibernian world of Lester Goran’s Pittsburgh with a sense of loss. Closing his book felt like driving away from my own boyhood city after a large Thanksgiving dinner, with improbable stories still echoing in my head. Tales from the Irish Club is a memorable work.”New York Times Book Review
Tales from the Irish Club: A Collection of Short Stories
132Tales from the Irish Club: A Collection of Short Stories
132Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781612771205 |
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Publisher: | Kent State University Press |
Publication date: | 01/26/2011 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 132 |
File size: | 568 KB |