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Mothers : Twenty Stories of Contemporary Motherhood
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Mothers : Twenty Stories of Contemporary Motherhood Paperback - 1997

by Katrina Kenison (Editor); Kathleen Hirsch (Editor)

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  • Title Mothers : Twenty Stories of Contemporary Motherhood
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, NY, U.S.A.
  • Date 1997-05-02
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 40655235-6
  • ISBN 9780865475113 / 0865475113
  • Weight 1.16 lbs (0.53 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.26 x 5.76 x 0.95 in (23.52 x 14.63 x 2.41 cm)
  • Themes
    • Holiday: Mother's Day
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Family
    • Topical: Women's Interest
  • Library of Congress subjects Women, Short stories, American - Women authors
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96035329
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the rear 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 and A Home in the Heart of the City. She lives with her family in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

Katrina Kenison is the former series editor of The Best American Short Stories anthologies, and she is now an author and blogger. Her books include Mitten Strings for God: Reflections for Mothers in a Hurry.

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