Mothers: Twenty Stories of Contemporary Motherhood - Hardcover

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9780865474987: Mothers: Twenty Stories of Contemporary Motherhood

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0865474982 ISBN 13: 9780865474987

Publisher: North Point Pr, 1996

A collection of stories celebrates American motherhood with works by such authors as Laurie Colwin, Jane Shapiro, and Sue Miller, in an anthology that highlights such themes as high-risk pregnancies, single parenthood, and letting go.

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From the Back Cover:

Ciaran Carson's Last Night's Fun is a sparkling celebration of Irish music and life that is itself a literary performance of the highest order. Each chapter takes the title of a traditional tune, and as in a session played by brilliant improvising musicians, each tune leads into another, melodies and variations weaving in and out in a haze of talk and memory. Carson's inspired jumble of recording history, poetry, tall tales, and polemic captures the sound and vigor of a ruthlessly unsentimental music. A leading Irish poet who is also an accomplished flute player, he tells of his Belfast childhood, of learning to play music, of his travels in Ireland and America, of poteen, pub life, and the special pleasure taken in a well-made Fry "the morning after the night before". Loosely interpreted standards, as Carson points out, achieve a special kind of profundity and resonance - a tune can never be played the same way twice - so this is also a book about the poignancy of lost airs, about music as "a way of renegotiating lost time" and recognizing mortality.

About the Author:

Kathleen Hirsch is the author of Songs from the Alley (NPP, 1998) and A Home in the Heart of the City (NPP, 1998). She lives with her family in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

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