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01928aam a2200313 i 4500 001 05C54D0E621111E7BC2B04C5DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170706010219 008 170106t20172017txu 000 j eng 010 $a 2016054352 020 $a 1943150079 020 $a 9781943150076 035 $a (OCoLC)958483984 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d OEL $d OCLCO $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3563 C3636 A6 2017 100 1 $a McGarry, Jean, $e author. 240 10 $a Short stories. $k Selections 245 10 $a No harm done / $c Jean McGarry. 250 $a First Dalkey Archive edition. 264 1 $a Victoria, TX : $b Dalkey Archive Press, $c 2017. 300 $a 250 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "A collection of fifteen stories, Jean McGarry's No Harm Done, depicts family life at its worst, best, and funniest, as if the author had conjoined the lunacy of Cold Comfort Farm with the bitter grievances of Dubliners. As the author writes in "Strong Boy," this might be " ... because every family, rich or poor, is roughage." The characters, gallant, goofy, gifted, and grim, include sickly mothers of a dozen children, boozy fathers with a gift of the gab, kids aspiring to be nuns and priests, or just to get out of town with a whole skin. A section is devoted to one marriage made in heaven: a Jewish psychoanalyst devoted to his ex-nun wife. Another set of stories reworks familiar fairy tales, setting them in the wild present. No Harm Done (whose title is Irish code for wishful thinking) concludes with a truce to the war between the sexes, and indeed a 'solution' to the tragicomedy that is marriage and family"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Families $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Short stories, American. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170907010717.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=05C54D0E621111E7BC2B04C5DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search