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Home at Last
Jean Mcgarry
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Description for Home at Last
Paperback. From the author of "Airs of Providence", "The Very Rich Hours", and "The Courage of Girls", this book brings together a dozen new stories. Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 227.
"Home" is the unnamed goal in this collection whose characters are somehow always searching for that ideal state of calm and warmth and perfect tolerance. Of course, that dream is quite unlike the hard world of Providence, where these dreamers really live - a world of wary neighbours and vague priests, of flinty teachers, of parents distant and irascible. Hungering for some better place, these sons and daughters of New England follow very different paths, and make very different - often shattering - discoveries. In "The Raft", a ten-year-old boy struggles with the shock of his father's leap from a ... Read more
"Home" is the unnamed goal in this collection whose characters are somehow always searching for that ideal state of calm and warmth and perfect tolerance. Of course, that dream is quite unlike the hard world of Providence, where these dreamers really live - a world of wary neighbours and vague priests, of flinty teachers, of parents distant and irascible. Hungering for some better place, these sons and daughters of New England follow very different paths, and make very different - often shattering - discoveries. In "The Raft", a ten-year-old boy struggles with the shock of his father's leap from a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
Series
Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801848537
SKU
V9780801848537
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About Jean Mcgarry
Jean McGarry teaches in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. Ocean State is her eighth book of fiction. Dream Date, Gallagher's Travels, Home at Last, The Very Rich Hours, and Airs of Providence have also been published by Johns Hopkins. Her short stories have appeared in, among other publications, The New Yorker, ... Read more
Reviews for Home at Last
Ms. McGarry's stories have the feel of paintings by Edward Hopper. Her characters are solitudinous and lonely, rarely funny, but the often carry with them, even in their defeat, a certain dignity. She is a writer who honors the human condition. Baltimore Sun