Research Catalog
No harm done
- Title
- No harm done / Jean McGarry.
- Author
- McGarry, Jean
- Publication
- Victoria, TX : Dalkey Archive Press, 2017.
- ©2017
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 17-3675 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 250 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "A collection of fifteen stories, Jean McGarry's No Harm Done, depicts family life at its worst, best, and funniest, as if the author had conjoined the lunacy of Cold Comfort Farm with the bitter grievances of Dubliners. As the author writes in "Strong Boy," this might be " ... because every family, rich or poor, is roughage." The characters, gallant, goofy, gifted, and grim, include sickly mothers of a dozen children, boozy fathers with a gift of the gab, kids aspiring to be nuns and priests, or just to get out of town with a whole skin. A section is devoted to one marriage made in heaven: a Jewish psychoanalyst devoted to his ex-nun wife. Another set of stories reworks familiar fairy tales, setting them in the wild present. No Harm Done (whose title is Irish code for wishful thinking) concludes with a truce to the war between the sexes, and indeed a 'solution' to the tragicomedy that is marriage and family"--
- Uniform Title
- Short stories. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Short stories.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Short stories.
- Call Number
- JFD 17-3675
- ISBN
- 9781943150076
- 1943150079
- LCCN
- 2016054352
- OCLC
- 958483984
- Author
- McGarry, Jean, author.
- Title
- No harm done / Jean McGarry.
- Publisher
- Victoria, TX : Dalkey Archive Press, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Edition
- First Dalkey Archive edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-3675