| The Parish and the Hill Contributor(s): Doyle Curran, Mary (Author), Halley, Anne (Afterword by) |
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ISBN: 155861396X ISBN-13: 9781558613966 Publisher: Feminist Press OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2002 Annotation: A touchstone novel in Irish American literature, this reissue of the 1948 classic draws captivating portraits of love and strife amongst the unforgettable O'Connors. Brilliant and painful on themes of alienation, social class, and alcoholism, this candid account of mill town life in 1920s New England illuminates the often dear cost paid by poor immigrants to a nation that both needs and despises, lures and rejects, promises and abandons. "A brilliant first novel."-"Commonweal" Marketing Plans: "Mary Doyle Curran" (191781) was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and taught Irish literature at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Coming Of Age - Fiction | Cultural Heritage |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2002020007 |
| Series: Contemporary Classics by Women |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.50 lbs) 280 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Cultural Region - New England - Ethnic Orientation - Irish - Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Told from the vantage point of a young woman who grows to maturity in a New England mill town in the 1920s, The Parish and the Hill portrays three generations of an Irish immigrant family in their urge to negotiate multiple identities. Mary O'Connor is the product of a family and a town divided by the conflicting values of the shanty and lace-curtain Irish. Originally published in 1948, The Parish and the Hill is now identified as one of the finest works of Irish American fiction, and one of the first to explore Irish life from a woman's point of view. Brilliant and powerful on the themes of alienation, social class, and alcoholism, the novel offers complex and unforgettable portraits of the love between grandfather and granddaughter, mother and children, sister and brother. |