Who's Irish? by Gish Jen
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.
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The House on Mango Street
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The Secret History
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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American Psycho
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One Day
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Snow Falling on Cedars
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A Lesson Before Dying
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The Little Friend
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
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Heartburn
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Push
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Geek Love
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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Plainsong
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Bridge of Sighs: Oprah's Book Club
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The River
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The Dog Stars
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Unaccustomed Earth
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Empire Falls (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
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Interior Chinatown
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Woman Hollering Creek
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Plainwater
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Einstein's Dreams
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Autobiography of Red
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Hotel Du Lac
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Dept. of Speculation
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Bright Lights, Big City
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Our Souls at Night
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Less Than Zero
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Cathedral
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The Flight Attendant
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Sweetbitter
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Midwives
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The Guide
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A Gathering of Old Men
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Swamplandia!
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If Not, Winter
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Where I'm Calling From
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The Sandcastle Girls
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The Queen's Gambit
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Eventide
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Amy and Isabelle
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The Book of Unknown Americans
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Brother, I'm Dying
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Straight Man
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One More Thing
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Old School
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The Rules of Attraction
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This Must Be the Place
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The Tie That Binds
Gish Jen is the author of four novels, a book of stories, and a previous book of nonfiction, Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self. Her honors include the Lannan Literary Award for fiction, the Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the Fulbright Foundation. She is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and lives with her husband and children in Cambridge, Massachusetts. www.gishjen.com
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780375705922 |
| ISBN 10 | 0375705929 |
| Title | Who's Irish? |
| Author | Gish Jen |
| Series | Vintage Contemporaries |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2000-06-13 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |