The Corrigan Women

By Myrtis T. Dohaney and M.T. Dohaney

On the eve of the First World War, 15-year-old Bertha Ryan leaves home to work in the Cove as the hired girl in the troubled Corrigan household, setting in motion an intense family drama. Pregnant and terrified, Bertha marries one of her mistress's sons, with tragic results. Her daughter Carmel fares no better: during the Second World War, madly in love, she "marries" a bigamist American soldier. Leaving her child with Bertha, she heads for Boston and toils in a boot factory to support herself and them. The full weight of accumulated shame falls upon the last of the Corrigan women, Carmel's daughter Tessie, who finds herself caught in the crossfire between the ways of the Cove and the world beyond Newfoundland. With its richly textured portrayal of outport life and its raw emotional energy, Dohaney's beloved first novel is a contemporary classic. Long unavailable, The Corrigan Women is the first book in the trilogy that ends with the critically acclaimed A Fit Month for Dying.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0920304672
• ISBN13: 9780920304679
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Gynergy Books/Ragweed Pr
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.