Mapping Norwood: An Irish American Memoir

by Charles Fanning

Book Overview

As the title indicates, this memoir is an act of map making, of plotting out overlapping territories--topographical, temporal, and psychological. Centered on family life in a Massachusetts town from the 1920s to the 1960s, the author's investigation extends outward to include the Boston area from colonial times to the recent past, encounters with Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and with Harvard College, the American Civil War, and Ireland and Germany...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558498109
• ISBN13: 9781558498105
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"