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"Robert Cranny is an artist, a man of beautiful gifts, a poet."
- William Goyen -
- William Goyen -
In "The White Deer," Jack Gogarty, approaching old age returns to the village in Wicklow, Ireland he had visited one summer as a boy. He recalls the mystical happenings of that strange and wonderful time and discovers the simple yet mysterious ways of the country people far outweigh the so-called advantages of the modern world.
Brooklyn, 1957. The Dodgers are about to move to Los Angeles; and in a largely Irish and Italian neighborhood, residents are just beginning to feel the impact of the arrival of black and Hispanic families.
"Faces Along the Bar" is a powerful, evocative tale of a community swept up in the volatile racial and social tensions of the period, and a profound questioning of the reality and validity of the American dream.
"Faces Along the Bar" is a powerful, evocative tale of a community swept up in the volatile racial and social tensions of the period, and a profound questioning of the reality and validity of the American dream.
Jackie Kelly is born into exile as he is born into Ireland-a country racked with ancient enmities, where love is a burden and the past an inescapable prison. Set in a working-class suburb of Dublin during the 1940's, this novel tells the story of young Jackie's family and his journey toward actual, physical exile. It is a novel of pride and estrangement, of fathers and sons, of passions so strong that they wear out the bodies they inhabit.
First published to great acclaim by the Dial press in 1982 under the title "On Us Thy Poor Children," "The Storm" is a tender, lyrical, harsh and wild novel. And Cranny, in the tradition of Brian Moore and Frank O'Connor, masterfully demonstrates his ability to write with wit and eloquence, casting a sharp, sorrowful eye on the life and death of an Irish family.
"Mr. Cranny has captured the time and place beautifully; his dialogue is perfectly caught as that of Joyce's in 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man', and I was much moved by his own portrait, seen through the gauze of innocence. It is a very fine, always touching first novel...The family is my own and everyone's." -Hugh Leonard, author of "Da" and "A Life"
First published to great acclaim by the Dial press in 1982 under the title "On Us Thy Poor Children," "The Storm" is a tender, lyrical, harsh and wild novel. And Cranny, in the tradition of Brian Moore and Frank O'Connor, masterfully demonstrates his ability to write with wit and eloquence, casting a sharp, sorrowful eye on the life and death of an Irish family.
"Mr. Cranny has captured the time and place beautifully; his dialogue is perfectly caught as that of Joyce's in 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man', and I was much moved by his own portrait, seen through the gauze of innocence. It is a very fine, always touching first novel...The family is my own and everyone's." -Hugh Leonard, author of "Da" and "A Life"
