Who's Irish?: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375705922)

In this dazzling collection of short stories, the award-winning author of the acclaimed novels Thank You, Mr. Nixon and Mona in the Promised Land--presents a "sparkling ... gently satiric look at the American Dream and its fallout on those who pursue it" (The New York Times).

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 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.

Author: Gish Jen
ISBN-10: 0375705929
ISBN-13: 9780375705922
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 06/13/2000
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.38w x 0.59d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.2
Point Value: 10
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 70919 / Who's Irish? Stories


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 06/18/2000 pg. 28
Entertainment Weekly 08/04/2000 pg. 79