Who's Irish?: Stories
Gish Jen$12.75
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In this dazzling collection of short stories, the award-winning author of the acclaimed novels Thank You, Mr. Nixon and Mona in the Promised Land--presents a "sparkling ... gently satiric look at the American Dream and its fallout on those who pursue it" (The New York Times).
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 succeed at it. With dazzling wit and compassion, Gish Jen 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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/13/2000
ISBN: 9780375705922
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.38w x 0.59d
Review Citations: New York Times 06/18/2000 pg. 28
Entertainment Weekly 08/04/2000 pg. 79
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 70919 / Who's Irish? Stories
Reading Level: 6.2 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 10
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 succeed at it. With dazzling wit and compassion, Gish Jen 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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/13/2000
ISBN: 9780375705922
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.38w x 0.59d
Review Citations: New York Times 06/18/2000 pg. 28
Entertainment Weekly 08/04/2000 pg. 79
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 70919 / Who's Irish? Stories
Reading Level: 6.2 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 10