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Edward J Delaney
1) The acrobat
Author
Publisher
Turtle Point Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
""Everyone wants to be Cary Grant," mused the world's most famous leading man. "Even I want to be Cary Grant." Who was Cary Grant, really? Who was he meant to be? Who in the end did he want to become? It is 1959, the year of his greatest successes but also at the zenith of a charmed career, and the 55-year-old man who calls himself Cary Grant is on a deep journey into the self. Introduced to the wonders of LSD as part of his therapy at The Psychiatric...
2) Broken Irish
Author
Publisher
Turtle Point Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Set in the late 1990's in Boston, a time when even the local Catholic Church is party to a scandal that threatens to unravel, Edward J. Delaney's intricately structured Broken Irish moves with the pace of a thriller, but delves more deeply into its lives. This engrossing novel about corruption and redemption gives sympathetic voice to the voiceless and offers an unflinching look at the workings of a community in the throes of change" -- p. [4] of...
Author
Publisher
Turtle Point Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Short fiction exploring guilt and redemption, aspiration and failure, and the stubbornness of modest hopes. The usual mileposts are fading, and choice is in the context of institutions and assumptions that are no longer holding steady. Edward J. Delaney is author of the novels 'Follow the Sun,' 'Broken Irish,' and 'Warp & Weft'"--
4) Warp & weft
Author
Publisher
Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Set in the gloomy depths of the granite-block textile mills of the industrial Northeast, Warp & Weft illuminates the lives of three generations of men who toil together. Carey, the leader of the small crew who load and unload the endless procession of trucks at the Chace Mill, worries about his wife's illness and tries to distract himself by pouring all his hopes into the fortunes of the mill's ragtag softball team; his wife, Joyce, finds herself...
Author
Publisher
Turtle Point Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Quinn Boyle is a lobsterman afloat in a shambled vessel, haunted by his battles with lobsters and with heroin, and ever behind on his child support. Since Quinn lost a man off his boat and served time for possession, only naïve beginners will work with him. On his final lobster run, Quinn's down to his last options. He hires on an old nemesis, Freddy Santoro, who's facing prison time of his own. Three days later, they're both gone, lost without a...
Author
Publisher
Carnegie Mellon University Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Stories about the Irish in Boston. In the title story, a former priest flees Ireland for the U.S. to assume a new identity, Hero is on returning Vietnam War soldiers, while in O Beauty! O Truth! a nice boy becomes involved with criminals.
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"The authors, illustrators, and editors of some of the finest works of children's literature share their stories in this examination of the deeper side of the art. From the stories we hear as children to those we tell our own, the work of these storytellers often comes from a profound place and has more profound effects than we might imagine."--Container.
