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The Irish still matter in San Francisco. This book of stories deals with the contemporary relationship of the Irish-Irish and the Irish-Americans in that city. Usually humorous, sometimes painful, other times a combination of the two, that relationship remains an important and extremely soulful one. "I read every word of these stories, not through professional obligation but through genuine enjoyment, engagement, admiration for mastery of the craft... I was literally moved to tears by some of the stories, transported by all of them into a world of Irish nuns, immigrants, mad poets,…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
The Irish still matter in San Francisco. This book of stories deals with the contemporary relationship of the Irish-Irish and the Irish-Americans in that city. Usually humorous, sometimes painful, other times a combination of the two, that relationship remains an important and extremely soulful one. "I read every word of these stories, not through professional obligation but through genuine enjoyment, engagement, admiration for mastery of the craft... I was literally moved to tears by some of the stories, transported by all of them into a world of Irish nuns, immigrants, mad poets, white-collar workers, errant priests, lawyers with, of all things, a heart..." -Malcolm Margolin
Autorenporträt
Terence Clarke is the author of eleven books, eight of them fiction. His most recent, a novel titled The Splendid City, was published on March 1, 2019 by Floricanto Press in Los Angeles. It has the great Pablo Neruda as its central character, and has been translated to Spanish by Chilean novelist Jaime Collyer. Clarke is the co-founder and director of publishing at Astor & Lenox, San Francisco. He is a professional member of PENAmerica and has also had a professional relationship with the Squaw Valley Community of Writers for some years.