Who's Irish? Stories

Name: Who's Irish? Stories
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ISBN: 9780375705922

ISBN-10: 0375705929

ISBN-13: 9780375705922

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Authors: Gish Jen

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"Sparkling--a gently satiric look at the American Dream and its fallout on those who pursue it."--The New York Times With dazzling wit and compassion, Gish Jen--author of the highly acclaimed novels Typical American and Mona in the Promised Land--looks at ambition and compromise at century's end and finds that much of the action is as familiar--and as strange--as the things we know to be most deeply true about ourselves. The stories in Who's Irish? show us the children of immigrants looking wonderingly at their parents' efforts to assimilate, while the older generation asks how so much selfless hard work on their part can have yielded them offspring who'd sooner drop out of life than…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/13/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.418
Language: English

Gish Jen is a writer living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the author of four novels, including Typical American and Mona in the Promised Land. Her most recent novel is World and Town.