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Stories by Irish writers - including Maeve Binchy An outstanding collection of twelve coming-of-age stories by Irish and Irish-American writers. Maeve Binchy's 'When Grania Grows Up' pinpoints the moment a girl who believed in happy families loses her innocent faith in people; Marita Conlon-McKenna writes of a teenage romance that triggers hostilities between Catholics and Protestants; the title story by Shane Connaughton deals with macabre humour with a teenage boy rumoured to have committed a murder; and Helena Mullkerns' 'Landlocked' is about an Irish girl waitressing in Texas and beginning to understand the complex dream of immigrant life. The authors include established writers and some exciting newcomers. In their very different ways each succeeds brilliantly in conveying the universal longing of the young to grow up, to love, and to start a new life.… (altro)
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John Peters (Booklist, Jan. 1, 2001 (Vol. 97, No. 9)) In these 12 new stories, young people approach or step over the threshold of adulthood, driven by soul-deep infatuation, a glimpse of girls in underwear, failures of parents or older sibs, beginning a new life in America, or ending one in a Liverpool abortion clinic. Some ominous or horrifying experiences (a teenager discovers bulimia, a girl is physically tortured by peers for dating a "proddy") alternate with profound or triumphant discoveries (a girl turns lemons to lemonade after losing her hair to chemotherapy). Aside from Chris Lynch and Maeve Binchy, the authors here may be new even to well-read American teens, but brief biographical notes provide some background as well as leads to other titles. As editor Snell points out, Ireland is moving away from it's violence-ridden, economically depressed past, so readers whose vision of the country has been shaped by immigration and potato-famine stories may be surprised by how often the teenagers and the concerns in these selections seem familiar.
Stories by Irish writers - including Maeve Binchy An outstanding collection of twelve coming-of-age stories by Irish and Irish-American writers. Maeve Binchy's 'When Grania Grows Up' pinpoints the moment a girl who believed in happy families loses her innocent faith in people; Marita Conlon-McKenna writes of a teenage romance that triggers hostilities between Catholics and Protestants; the title story by Shane Connaughton deals with macabre humour with a teenage boy rumoured to have committed a murder; and Helena Mullkerns' 'Landlocked' is about an Irish girl waitressing in Texas and beginning to understand the complex dream of immigrant life. The authors include established writers and some exciting newcomers. In their very different ways each succeeds brilliantly in conveying the universal longing of the young to grow up, to love, and to start a new life.
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In these 12 new stories, young people approach or step over the threshold of adulthood, driven by soul-deep infatuation, a glimpse of girls in underwear, failures of parents or older sibs, beginning a new life in America, or ending one in a Liverpool abortion clinic. Some ominous or horrifying experiences (a teenager discovers bulimia, a girl is physically tortured by peers for dating a "proddy") alternate with profound or triumphant discoveries (a girl turns lemons to lemonade after losing her hair to chemotherapy). Aside from Chris Lynch and Maeve Binchy, the authors here may be new even to well-read American teens, but brief biographical notes provide some background as well as leads to other titles. As editor Snell points out, Ireland is moving away from it's violence-ridden, economically depressed past, so readers whose vision of the country has been shaped by immigration and potato-famine stories may be surprised by how often the teenagers and the concerns in these selections seem familiar.