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Maeve Brennan
Homesick At The New Yorker
by Angela Bourke
ISBN: 1582432295
ISBN-13: 9781582432298
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
Maeve Brennan (1917-1993) was born in Ireland, but came to the US as a teenager when her family moved to Washington, DC. Gradually rising in the world of journalism, she became a fixture at The New Yorker, writing book reviews, "Talk of the Town" features (Brennan was the magazine's famous "long-winded lady"), and-eventually-short stories. Now considered a masterly fiction writer, Brennan during her lifetime was plagued by poverty, failure, and mental illness. This sympathetic biography traces Brennan's roots back to Ireland and ends with her sad death, but its main focus is on her incomparable stories.
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"What Angela Bourke has done in her new biography...is not only to trace a somewhat forlorn life, but to remind readers of how much they have missed....Detached yet sympathetic, Angela Bourke's perceptive biography, which draws constantly on the autobiographical threads in Brennan's fiction, may finally bring her the acclaim she deserves." -- Caroline Moorehead
-- Literary Review
"An impressive portrait...."
-- Kirkus
"[A] sensitive biography....Bourke...draws a portrait rich in New Yorker history and modern Irish feminist history alike, one likely to do much to foster a new readership for Brennan's work."
-- Publishers Weekly
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published date: 2004
Size: 6.5 x 9.25 inches
Weight: 1.45 pounds
Pages: 333
Publisher's Notes
Witty, stylish, and beautiful, Maeve Brennan dazzled everyone who met her. Born in Dublin, she came to the U.S. with her father, Ireland's first Ambassador to America, and in her early thirties joined The New Yorker, where she was at the heart of the life of the magazine until she was nearly sixty. Under the pseudonym "The Long-Winded Lady," she wrote matchless urban postcards for the "Talk of the Town," and, under her own name, published fierce, intimate fiction.
Today her forty-odd stories are anthology standards, prized by writers as different from one another as Alice Munro and Brennan's own nephew Roddy Doyle. But at the time of her death in 1993, she was obscure, indeed lost: She hadn't published a word since the 1970s, and she had slowly slipped into madness, ending as a bag lady in the streets of midtown Manhattan. It is Angela Bourke's achievement to trace this sad arc, and to bring her compelling personality to life. Thoroughly researched, beautifully written, and filled with a wealth of previously unpublished material, it will be welcomed by anyone interested in Ireland, The New Yorker, and a woman who remains one of the twentieth century's most distinctive prose stylists.
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Maeve Brennan : The New Yorker, Ireland and Memory
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Maeve Brennan: Homesick At The New Yorker An Irish Writer in Exile
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Maeve Brennan : Homesick at the New Yorker. [An Irish Writer in Exile] [The Bolgers of Coolnaboy; Bob & Una; Belgrave Road; Cherryfield Avenue; Remembering Shadows; Cross & Passion; Mr Brennan Goes to Washington; Away from Home]
Bourke, Angela. [photo, Karl Bissinger]
New York : Counterpoint, 2004.. [1st edition], 1st printing ; xv, 333 pp. ; illustrated with black and white photographs ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 1582432295; 9781582432298 LCCN: 2004-53215 ; OCLC: 55657588 ; LC: PR6052.R413; Dewey: 823/.914 ; black cloth with silver lettering in photogr. aphic dustjacket ; "Witty, small and beautiful, Maeve Brennan dazzled everyone who met her. 'To be around her', said a colleague, 'was to see style being invented.' She was born in Dublin in 1917 and came to Washington in 1934 with her father, the . Irish Ambassador to the United States. Later, as a staff writer at Harper's Bazaar, she reveled in Manhattan's world of theater and fashion, until, in 1948, The New Yorker lured her away...She wrote matchless urban postcards for Talk of the Town an. d under her own name published fierce, intimate fiction...It is Angela Bourke's achievement, in the first biography of this troubled genius, to trace the sad arc of Brennan's career and to bring her compelling, generous and erratic personality to li. fe." ; remainder mark at bottom, else FINE/FINE. ( more information) Offered by Joseph Valles - Books (United States)
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