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Too smart to be sentimental, contemporary Irish American women writers, edited by Sally Barr Ebest and Kathleen McInerney ; foreword by Caledonia Kearns

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Too smart to be sentimental, contemporary Irish American women writers, edited by Sally Barr Ebest and Kathleen McInerney ; foreword by Caledonia Kearns
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Too smart to be sentimental
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
173218797
Responsibility statement
edited by Sally Barr Ebest and Kathleen McInerney ; foreword by Caledonia Kearns
Sub title
contemporary Irish American women writers
Table of contents
Mary McCarthy : too smart to be sentimental / Sally Barr Ebest -- Maureen Howard's "Landscapes of memory" / Patricia Keefe Durso -- Moments of kindness, moments of recognition : the achievement of Maeve Brennan / John M. Menaghan -- "Forget about being Irish" : family, transgression, and identity in the fiction of Elizabeth Cullinan / Kathleen McInerney -- Alice McDermott's narrators / Beatrice Jacobson -- Tess Gallagher : a network of sympathies and distant connections / Mary Ann Ryan -- "I'm your man" : Irish American masculinity in the fiction of Joyce Carol Oates / Susana Araújo -- Hardly sentimental : the "bad girls" and lonely men of Mary McGarry Morris's fiction / Patricia Gott -- Blurring boundaries : Eileen Myles and the Irish American identity / Kathleen Ann Kremins -- The world of Mary Gordon : writing from the "other side" / Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw -- Jean McGarry : sojourners between dreams and realities / Amy Lee -- Erin McGraw : expanding the tradition of Irish American women writers / Sally Barr Ebest

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