Ocean State: Stories by Jean McGarry (English) Hardcover Book

Description: Ocean State by Jean McGarry The stories of Ocean State roll over the reader like a wave. Family 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 lifes rough seas with what the New York Times has called a "deft, comic, and devastatingly precise" hand. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The stories of Ocean State roll over the reader like a wave. Family 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 lifes rough seas with what the New York Times has called a "deft, comic, and devastatingly precise" hand. Author Biography Jean McGarry teaches in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. Ocean State is her eighth book of fiction. Dream Date, Gallaghers Travels, Home at Last, The Very Rich Hours, and Airs of Providence have also been published by Johns Hopkins. Her short stories have appeared in, among other publications, The New Yorker, The Yale Review, Boulevard, and The Southwest Review. Table of Contents Part I: Family Happiness Chapter 1. Family HappinessChapter 2. The Sweetness of Her NameChapter 3. The Tree of LifePart II: TransferenceChapter 4. TransferenceChapter 5. Gold LeafChapter 6. A Full HousePart III: The Wedding GownsChapter 7. The Wedding GownsChapter 8. Family RomanceChapter 9. The OfferingPart IV: Ocean StateChapter 10. Dream DateChapter 11. Welcome Wherever He WentChapter 12. The Night BeforeChapter 13. Ocean StateAcknowledgements Review McGarrys 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. Projo Arts Blog, Providence Journal 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 McGarrys 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 Long Description The stories of Ocean State roll over the reader like a wave. Family 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 lifes rough seas with what the New York Times has called a deft, comic, and devastatingly precise hand.Praise for Jean McGarryA gifted observer, records with fidelity the daily minutiae of life and introspection. -- Publishers WeeklyMs. McGarrys stories have the feel of paintings by Edward Hopper. Her characters are solitudinous and lonely, rarely funny, but they often carry with them, even in their defeat, a certain dignity. She is a writer who honors the human condition. -- Baltimore SunMcGarrys thickly layered prose, with its stunning emotional accuracies, is always just on the verge of exploding into dream or fantasy. -- Womens Review of BooksAt her best, McGarry illuminates our quirky, flawed selves and neighbors, and makes us nod even as we sigh. -- Providence JournalMcGarrys prose is fresh, her plots unpredictable, and her dialogue shimmeringly wry... Reading McGarrys stories is to be surprised and delighted. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Review Text ""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 McGarrys meticulous details, and the boundless life of the spirit. Her literary progenitors range from Willa Cather to Virginia Woolfbut 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."" Review Quote "McGarrys 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." -- Projo Arts Blog, Providence Journal Details ISBN0801896584 Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press Year 2010 ISBN-10 0801896584 ISBN-13 9780801896583 Format Hardcover Series Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press Subtitle Stories Place of Publication Baltimore, MD Country of Publication United States DEWEY 813.54 Short Title OCEAN STATE Language English Media Book Audience Age 18 Pages 224 Illustrations No Publication Date 2010-10-27 NZ Release Date 2010-10-27 US Release Date 2010-10-27 UK Release Date 2010-10-27 Author Jean McGarry Alternative 9780801899539 Audience General AU Release Date 2010-09-14 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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