{"product_id":"ocean-state-johns-hopkins-poetry-and-fiction-9780801896583","title":"Ocean State Johns Hopkins Poetry and Fiction","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFamily pleasures, marriage, the essential moments and mysteries of a seemingly ordinary world that break into magical territory before we can brace ourselves-Jean McGarry puts us in life's rough seas with what the New York Times has called a deft, comic, and devastatingly precise hand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMcGarry's stories are psychological studies constructed around a moment of reckoning-a first date at the church social, a wedding day tomorrow, the last reveries of a dying man. She burrows deeply into the sensibilities of recognizable, ordinary people-our younger selves, sisters and brothers we could know, parents and adult children we have been or have observed. Providence Journal 2010 Exceptionally intense, intricately structured, and as arresting and consistently engaging as fractal art... the stories trace characters' sense of a double existence: the life inside family, defined and constrained by McGarry's meticulous details, and the boundless life of the spirit. Her literary progenitors range from Willa Cather to Virginia Woolf--but she brings a savage lyricism to her stories, a sense of rage contained perilously by wit and intelligence, that gives the stories a menacing aspect, like watching a man threatening suicide walk on a ledge. The Hopkins Review 2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Family Happiness \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Family Happiness\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. The Sweetness of Her Name\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. The Tree of Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Transference\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Transference\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Gold Leaf\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. A Full House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: The Wedding Gowns\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. The Wedding Gowns\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Family Romance\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. The Offering\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Ocean State\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. Dream Date\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. Welcome Wherever He Went\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. The Night Before\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13. Ocean State\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49527635444055,"sku":"9780801896583","price":29.12,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801896583.jpg?v=1731868641","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ocean-state-johns-hopkins-poetry-and-fiction-9780801896583","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}