She loved me once, and other stories

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Stories about the working-class Irish in 1940s Pittsburgh. They range from Our Billy, which is on a family feud, to Evening with Right Racklin, in which a son learns from a bartender good things about his father.

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Main Author: Goran, Lester
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, 1997
Subjects:
Irish Americans > Fiction.
Jewish men > Fiction.
Pittsburgh (Pa.) > Social life and customs > Fiction.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Part one: Local Irregularities : Evenings with Right Racklin
  • Our Billy
  • She loved me once
  • Helping desmond
  • Moonlight Sonata
  • Today the war is over
  • The big snow
  • Part two: Costly Misapprehensions : The moment
  • The secret smile
  • The redeemer of Soho
  • An excess of quality
  • An old country wife
  • Build me a castle
  • The story of Cora and Wild Bill
  • After Mary
  • Part three: Ordinary Duplicities : Presidents come and go but a county job is forever
  • Dancing
  • Outside, on the roof
  • Spellbinder
  • The professional pallbearers union.

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