At Weddings and Wakes
This acclaimed national bestseller by the author of A Bigamist's Daughter and That Night tells the all-too-human story of the dramatic--and melodramatic--ebb and flow of the lives of an Irish Catholic family--a bittersweet, triumphant, haunting evocation of life's calamities and a magical...
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This acclaimed national bestseller by the author of A Bigamist's Daughter and That Night tells the all-too-human story of the dramatic--and melodramatic--ebb and flow of the lives of an Irish Catholic family--a bittersweet, triumphant, haunting evocation of life's calamities and a magical celebration of childhood and familial love. "Beautifully wrought."--The New York Times.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780440215233 (0440215234)
Publish date: February 2nd 1993
Publisher: Warner Books
Pages no: 307
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Irish Literature,
Family,
Contemporary,
Ireland,
Womens
This is a portrait of an Irish family in the near suburbs of New York. In fact it was a little unclear to me what was in the urban suburbs and what was in the city. Several generations are represented, and tales are told of marriages, good and failed, deaths, hopes. It is nicely written, although I ...
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