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Gherasim, Louise

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1880664240 ISBN 13: 9781880664247

Publisher: E M Pr, 1997

Synopsis

Book by Gherasim, Louise

About this title

About the Author:

Louise Gherasim was born and raised in Ireland, coming tothe United States in the late 1950's. A retired teacher with B. Mus. and MAdegrees, she spent 35 years in the classroom teaching everything from art,music, history and philosophy to English language and literature. She now livesin Oregon with her Romanian husband. An accomplished writer with an elegantliterary style, Louise has written numerous stories set in Ireland and Romania.Her objective not only to entertain but to teach and instruct.Louise knows Ireland through andthrough, its people and its history and never fails to capture the spirit ofthat warm and enduring land. She visited Romania and was immediately drawn toits people. "There is quite a remarkable resemblance between Ireland andRomania," she declares. "Both countries have known the highhandedness of theoppressor. Both peoples have borne the injustices and cruelties of thesuppressed. Both are countries of civilizations and cultures far older andnobler than their subjugators and both remained, despite all odds, true totheir Christian faith and traditions."

About this edition

• Publisher: E M Pr
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1880664240
• ISBN 13: 9781880664247
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 347