A Frank O'Connor reader

O'Connor, Frank, 1903-1966 (Author). Steinman, Michael (Michael A.) (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0815626142
ISBN: 0815602782 (pbk.)
Physical Description: xvi, 406 p. : port. ; 24 cm.
Edition: Syracuse University Press ed.
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1994.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Bibliography: p. 403-406.

Formatted Contents Note:

Guests of the nation -- In the train -- The majesty of the law -- Michael's wife -- Orpheus and his lute -- What's wrong with the country -- Old fellows -- The holy door -- Darcy in Tír na nÓg -- The rebel -- The face of evil -- Lonely rock -- A minority -- The man of the world -- The genius -- Music when soft voices die -- The party -- I am stretched on your grave -- Kilcash -- The lament for Art O'Leary -- The midnight court -- Only child -- The writer and the welfare state : the welfare state and I -- A boy in prison -- Meet Frank O'Connor -- Talk with the author -- Writing a story, one man's way -- Why don't you write about America? -- W.B. Yeats -- All the Olympians -- Introduction to A portrait of the artist as a young man -- For a two-hundredth birthday -- A walk in New York -- In quest of beer -- The conversion -- Ireland.