Research Catalog

Title

No harm done / Jean McGarry.

Author

McGarry, Jean

Publication

• Victoria, TX : Dalkey Archive Press, 2017.
• ©2017

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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.

Subject

• Families > Fiction
• Short stories, American

Genre/Form

Short stories

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

And the little one said -- No harm done -- Last rites -- Tower of ivory, house of gold -- The Cones -- The meat eater -- His Louise -- Someone is there -- Rella -- Strong boy -- The Sensitives -- Sleeping Beauty -- Mirella -- Narcissus -- The system.

ISBN

• 9781943150076
• 1943150079

LCCN

^^2016054352

OCLC

• 958483984
• SCSB-11495733

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library