num_pages: 384
description: The story of Irish women in this country and their influence on American letters has until now been little recognized. In this unique and affecting anthology of fiction by Irish American women, the voices of some of our most important writers are finally celebrated. Organized chronologically from the 1930s to the present day, these twenty-four stories - some of which have never before been published in book form - explore the sometimes crushing love and obligations of family, the mixed blessing of faith, and the origins of identity and sexuality. They all serve to resurrect the powerful image, once buried, of Irish women as storytellers.Noel Coward and Mrs. Griffin / Ruth McKenney --C.Y.E. / Mary McCarthy --Excerpt from The parish and the hill / Mary Doyle Curran --Excerpt from Hour of spring / Mary Deasy --Excerpt from Bridgeport bus / Maureen Howard --Life after death / Elizabeth Cullinan --One of them gets married / Jean McGarry --The lover of horses / Tess Gallagher --Nijinsky / Maura Stanton --Queen wintergreen / Alice Fulton --Excerpt from At weddings and wakes / Alice McDermott --Mary's departure / Kathleen Ford --My father's boat / Mary McGarry Morris --My father's alcoholism / Eileen Myles --Excerpt from One true thing / Anna Quindlen --Versus / Jennifer C Cornell --Pork chops / Eileen FitzGerald --City life / Mary Gordon --Daily affirmations / Erin McGraw --Famine fever / Helena Mulkerns --Achill ancestors and a stranger / Maureen Brady --Excerpt from The map of Ireland / Stephanie Grant --The other woman / Valerie Sayers --How Ireland lost the World Cup / Annie Callan
language: English
title: Cabbage and Bones: An Anthology of Irish-American Women's Fiction
titlecomplete: Cabbage and Bones: An Anthology of Irish-American Women's Fiction
genres: Fiction, Short Stories
ratings_count: 36
publisher: Holt Paperbacks