A strong collection of stories saturated with the scent of the sea,
the taste of Guinness, and a rough Gaelic music to the words even
when they are spoken in Texas or Liverpool. Shane Connaughton, who
wrote the screenplay for "My Left Foot", opens with young male love
all tied up in an old family house about to be razed. Memories and
ghosts in another abandoned family house inhabit June Considine's
"To Dream of White Horses," perhaps the most intensely felt of the
stories. Maeve Binchy (famed novelist and wife of the editor)
allows teenage Grania a glimpse of her parents' very complicated
lives; Ita Daly's "Headstrong Girl" faces her own survival at last
at Irish summer camp. Abortion, furtive passions, the vicious war
between Catholics and Protestants, and an Irish girl's epiphany at
a Texas greasy spoon: all in the end are backdrops to each
protagonist's finding his or her own self. As with many such
collections, the tales are best read individually rather than all
at once. "(Short stories. YA). (Kirkus Reviews)
Stories by Irish writers - including Maeve Binchy An outstanding
collection of twelve coming-of-age stories by Irish and
Irish-American writers. Maeve Binchy's 'When Grania Grows Up'
pinpoints the moment a girl who believed in happy families loses
her innocent faith in people; Marita Conlon-McKenna writes of a
teenage romance that triggers hostilities between Catholics and
Protestants; the title story by Shane Connaughton deals with
macabre humour with a teenage boy rumoured to have committed a
murder; and Helena Mullkerns' 'Landlocked' is about an Irish girl
waitressing in Texas and beginning to understand the complex dream
of immigrant life. The authors include established writers and some
exciting newcomers. In their very different ways each succeeds
brilliantly in conveying the universal longing of the young to grow
up, to love, and to start a new life.
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