A Frank O'Connor Reader

by OCONNOR FRANK

• ISBN13: 9780815602781
• ISBN10: 0815602782
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-04-01
• Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr

Summary

Frank O'Connor (1903-1966) is known primarily for his shot stories, and fine ones they are. There are seventeen of them in this Reader, and the best of them, in the words of Richard Ellmann 'stir those facial muscles which, we are told, are the same for both laughing and weeping.' Except for the masterpiece, 'Guest of the Nation, ' the stories included here have been out of print for twenty years, and one story had been previously unpublished.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Guests of the Nation	p. 3
In the Train	p. 15
The Majesty of the Law	p. 30
Michael's Wife	p. 39
Orpheus and His Lute	p. 56
What's Wrong with the Country	p. 67
Old Fellows	p. 82
The Holy Door	p. 91
Darcy in Tir na nOg	p. 142
The Rebel	p. 148
The Face of Evil	p. 157
Lonely Rock	p. 167
A Minority	p. 182
The Man of the World	p. 191
The Genius	p. 199
Music When Soft Voices Die	p. 211
The Party	p. 222
I Am Stretched on Your Grave	p. 233
Kilcash	p. 235
The Lament for Art O'Leary	p. 237
The Midnight Court	p. 247
Only Child	p. 279
The Writer and the Welfare State: The Welfare State and I	p. 283
A Boy in Prison	p. 292
Meet Frank O'Connor	p. 305
Talk with the Author	p. 310
Writing A Story - One Man's Way	p. 312
Why Don't You Write about America?	p. 318
W. B. Yeats	p. 325
All the Olympians	p. 330
Introduction to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	p. 341
For A Two-Hundredth Birthday	p. 346
A Walk in New York	p. 350
In Quest of Beer	p. 360
The Conversion	p. 368
Ireland	p. 375
Works Cited	p. 403
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