- Fiction, Irish Americans, Fiction, general
It is June 1968: Robert Kennedy has just been murdered, the streets are simmering with discontent, and the Irish community of Pittsburgh is being swept away by change. Daly Racklin becomes the reluctant leader of a dying neighborhood, culture, and people.
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Classical in form, nostalgic, contemplative and character-led.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Lester Goran
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 284
- Publisher
- Picador USA, Picador
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781466892392
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“On a fine spring day in 1968, Daly Racklin, six months short of fifty, was told by a doctor at the Montefiore Hospital in Pittsburgh that he had less than a year to live.”
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