Cabbage and Bones: An Anthology of Irish-American Women's Fiction

By Caledonia Kearns and Kathleen Ford

Book Overview

A groundbreaking collection that confirms the contribution Irish-American women have made to literature in this century. Organized chronologically from writings at the turn of the century to the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805052003
• ISBN13: 9780805052008
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.2" x 1.0" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Worthwhile

I enjoyed many of these stories, especially "How Ireland lost the World Cup", the excerpt from "At Weddings and Wakes" (one of my favorite books ever) and "Famine Fever". One story which bothered me, however, was "the Map of Ireland" by Stephanie Grant, is set in South Boston, where I live. She apparantly is not from South Boston, because she has made geographical errors (Gate of Heaven School and church are no where near the MaryEllen McCormack housing development). Ms. Grant should be aware that there are no projects in Gate of Heaven parish, but rather it is a solid middle class urban neighborhood!! We are not poor!! I wish people would stick to writing about what they know. You can't pretend to know a life that you don't. Otherwise, the stories are great and I think it was a great idea to put together an anthology of Irish-American women.