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Who's Irish?: Stories Paperback - 2000
by Gish Jen
In this collection of stories from the author of "Typical American" and "Mona in the Promised Land", children of immigrants look wonderingly at their parents' efforts to assimilate, while the older generation questions why their offspring would sooner drop out of life than succeed at it.
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"Sparkling--a gently satiric look at the American Dream and its fallout on those who pursue it."--"The New York Times
With dazzling wit and compassion, Gish Jen--author of the highly acclaimed novels Typical American and Mona in the Promised Land--looks at ambition and compromise at century's end and finds that much of the action is as familiar--and as strange--as the things we know to be most deeply true about ourselves.
The stories in Who's Irish? show us the children of immigrants looking wonderingly at their parents' efforts to assimilate, while the older generation asks how so much selfless hard work on their part can have yielded them offspring who'd sooner drop out of life than succeed at it.
With dazzling wit and compassion, Gish Jen--author of the highly acclaimed novels Typical American and Mona in the Promised Land--looks at ambition and compromise at century's end and finds that much of the action is as familiar--and as strange--as the things we know to be most deeply true about ourselves.
The stories in Who's Irish? show us the children of immigrants looking wonderingly at their parents' efforts to assimilate, while the older generation asks how so much selfless hard work on their part can have yielded them offspring who'd sooner drop out of life than succeed at it.
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- Title Who's Irish?: Stories
- Author Gish Jen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, NY
- Date 2000
- ISBN 9780375705922 / 0375705929
- Weight 0.52 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 8.06 x 5.38 x 0.59 in (20.47 x 13.67 x 1.50 cm)
- Reading level 840
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
- Topical: Family
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Entertainment Weekly, 08/04/2000, Page 79
- New York Times, 06/18/2000, Page 28
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