Mother of sorrows / Richard McCann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCann, Richard.

Contributor:

Penn Sexuality Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fatherless families--Fiction.

Fatherless families.

Washington (D.C.)--Fiction.

Washington (D.C.).

Mothers and sons--Fiction.

Mothers and sons.

Suburban life--Fiction.

Suburban life.

Gay youth--Fiction.

Gay youth.

Genre:

Fiction.

Historical fiction.

Physical Description:

196 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

1st Vintage Contemporaries ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, 2006, ©2005.

Summary:

With the breadth and cumulative force of a novel, this book presents ten interwoven stories of an American family in the post-World War II suburbs of Washington, D.C., a world of identical brick houses and sunstruck, treeless lawns, a world of initial hopefulness from which shame and loss have seemingly been banished. This is the story of two adolescent brothers whose father has suddenly died, and of their beautiful and complicated mother, a mother whom the younger son worshipfully imagines as "Our Mother of the Sighs and Heartaches ... Our Mother of the Gorgeous Gypsy Earrings ... Our Mother of Sudden Anger." The brother narrates these tales as he looks back thirty years later, the only remaining survivor of a world he seeks both to leave behind and to preserve in words forever, a world of sorrow that has held him spellbound even as he has attempted to create a life of his own.--From publisher description.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-196).

Local Notes:

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.

ISBN:

1400096219

9781400096213

OCLC:

70149963

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