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The Best of It - Couverture souple

Kane, Chris

 
9780595153275: The Best of It
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0595153275 ISBN 13 : 9780595153275
Editeur : iUniverse, 2000

Synopsis

At the center of the stories is Kate, the matriarch, a woman of unrealized possibilities whose disappointments in life are masked by a veneer of cruelty which affects them all, especially her daughter, Bridget, subject of eight of the stories. Beginning in County Mayo, Ireland, the fifteen short stories in The Best of It lay bare the complexities and contradictions, the lights and shadows that plague the immigrant Quinn family as they move from the old and embrace the new. Included in the stories are Beas attempts to remain true to her religious beliefs in a loveless marriage, Timeens patriotic fervor which leads him with Pattons Army into the Black Forest, John who thought he had left behind forever the dyin that so darkened his childhood. Bridget, in the second generation, becomes Sister Bridget whose life in the convent mirrors the aspirations and disappointments of her forebears.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

At the center of the stories is Kate, the matriarch, a woman of unrealized possibilities whose disappointments in life are masked by a veneer of cruelty which affects them all, especially her daughter, Bridget, subject of eight of the stories. Beginning in County Mayo, Ireland, the fifteen short stories in The Best of It lay bare the complexities and contradictions, the lights and shadows that plague the immigrant Quinn family as they move from the old and embrace the new. Included in the stories are Beas attempts to remain true to her religious beliefs in a loveless marriage, Timeens patriotic fervor which leads him with Pattons Army into the Black Forest, John who thought he had left behind forever the dyin that so darkened his childhood. Bridget, in the second generation, becomes Sister Bridget whose life in the convent mirrors the aspirations and disappointments of her forebears.

Biographie de l'auteur

Chris Kane grew up in Chicago, Illinois and attended Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A teacher of writing and literature in schools and universities throughout the United States, she is presently settled in the Northwest where she lives on a fir-lined lake with her dogs, cats, geese and heron.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0595153275
ISBN 13 
9780595153275
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
180
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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