HEROIN by Grace Dyas, Trade by Mark O'Halloran, The Art of Swimming by Lynda Radley, Pineapple by Phillip McMahon, I ? Alice ? I by Amy Conroy, The Big Deal edited by Una McKevitt, Oedipus Loves You by Simon Doyle & Gavin Quinn, The Year of Magical Wanking by Neil Watkins Edited and introduced by Thomas Conway This anthology comprises eight new plays by Irish playwrights premiered between the years 2006 and 2011. These playwrights ride, however, in no slipstream of the identifiably Irish play. Here, the enterprise of playwriting itself is being re-imagined. Here, above all else, is a commitment to becoming in the theatre. For all that, each play is concerned with what is unfinished business in Ireland. How astonishing, then, that these plays should revolve for the most part around identity and, in particular, sexual identity. How identity comes into play, how we open up the field of play, how we raise into collective experience the exercise of that play - the urgency in the playwriting would appear to lie precisely here. We can read from the historical moment - from a narrative emphasizing an economic bubble and its hangover - into these plays. Or we can take these playwrights at their word and observe lives lived at the contour of identities in the making. It is for us as readers, just as we have as theatre-goers - frequently scandalized, enthralled, shamed, appalled, unburdened, tickled pink - to decide.

Trouble Met Me Halfway records Thomas Conway Maas' memories, observations, and youthful indiscretions from his upbringing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the fifties, sixties, and early seventies. These essays relate the sometimes rocky path Tom took to adulthood, as well as reaffirm some universal truths about growing up. They provide not only snapshots of Tom's childhood, but offer a time capsule of ordinary life and changing cultural norms of that time period. Tom actively reflected about his life through his journals, his speechwriting, and his essays, a habit encouraged by his involvement in the Catholic Church's Schoenstatt Movement during his formative years. These particular essays reveal not only Tom's phenomenal memory, they show the confidence and aggressiveness that were present from early-on, which assisted him throughout his career as a lawyer.

Deon Lock Maas's bittersweet memoir recounts her time as a caregiver for her husband during his battle with a terminal illness, which was unexpectedly buoyed by the antics of their rescue dog Hoover.

When high school football coach and History teacher Danny Chambers stops a violent attack on a female motorist, he unwittingly becomes a target for revenge by the vicious leader of an Atlanta street gang known as the Latino Death Lords. Even though he is a decorated war veteran, Danny is a mild mannered man who has tried to live his life by avoiding trouble and turning the other cheek. Now he finds that this philosophy has not prepared him for the campaign of growing psychological terror the leader of the Death Lords launches against his family. When the authorities prove powerless to protect Danny, his wife and their two teenage children, and the psychological terror turns to violence and death, Danny knows that there is no one who can save his family, but himself even if it means his own death. No Hero is a novel of both survival and redemption in the modern world where the criminal's rights endanger the victim and the victim sometimes must becomes the criminal.

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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.