{"product_id":"tales-from-the-irish-club-goran-9780873385398","title":"Tales from the Irish Club: A Collection of Short Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTales from the Irish Club\u003c\/em\u003e contains 11 wry accounts of an enclave of Irish Americans in Pittsburgh during and after World War II. In this first collection of short stories by Lester Goran are the often comic, sometimes tragic tales of Jack Lanahan, the transcendental artist who carves nothing but wooden roosters; Long Conall O'Brien, haunted by the ghosts of prostitutes he has known world-wide; Mrs. Pauline Conlon, famous as the woman who outlives three husbands--until she meets Sailor Kiernan; and the night an image of the Madonna appears on the wall of Local No. 9 of the Ancient Order of Hibernians.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRanging from the grimly realistic to the fantastic, Goran's stories examine lives so unheralded that only the Irish Club, Forbes Field--where the Pirates break their hearts, and St. Agnes Church--where they attend school and prepare for eternity--know their joys and sorrows.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Tales from the Irish Club\u003c\/em\u003e presents a group of stories so well imagined that one can hardly tell them apart from life...They are meant to overheard, not heard, as if the reader were a child at a wedding eavesdropping on someone's loquacious, slightly drunken aunt...I abandoned the Hibernian world of Lester Goran's Pittsburgh with a sense of loss. Closing his book felt like driving away from my own boyhood city after a large Thanksgiving dinner, with improbable stories still echoing in my head. \u003cem\u003eTales from the Irish Club\u003c\/em\u003e is a memorable work.\"\u003cstrong\u003e--\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Goran\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 087338539X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780873385398\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kent State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/17\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.45w x 0.36d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/22\/1996 pg. 65\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/15\/1996 pg. 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/1996 pg. 1239\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/17\/1996 pg. 10\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/16\/1996 pg. 35\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNY Times Notable Bks of Year\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/1996 pg. 84","brand":"Goran","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47965740695807,"sku":"9780873385398","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a99fb961-3c13-47b1-a147-58925723fd2a.jpg?v=1767284487","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tales-from-the-irish-club-goran-9780873385398","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}