World renowned as a shrine of Irish traditional music, Doolin in County Clare lies between two natural wonders, the dark Cliffs of Moher and silver hills of the Burren. Once known only to her immediate neighbours, the cognoscenti and artists, Doolin is now mentioned in every guidebook to Ireland as a place to experience authentic Irish culture. Everyone who has been there has told someone else - who has told someone else - about this unique place. What started meandering to Doolin as a trickle of "alternatives" back in the 60's, became a mainstream flood by the 90's. This book includes a collection of essays, interviews and conversations with famous Doolin tradition-bearers: the Russell Brothers; the Killoughery's; Paddy Pharaic Mhichil Shannon. Francis McNamara and Boitius MacClancy are featured for the gentry. Music and folk traditions run through the book and it has chapters on storytelling and dancing. The book is illustrated with photographs, music, songs, maps and journal excerpts, and will include access to a special web site where readers can listen to, and download audio and video of the tradition bearers featured in the book.
In The West, Eddie Stack evokes life in a series of cinematic prose portraits of people, places and situations. Each of the tales are remarkably different, but they click together to form a pattern. Several stories from this collection have been republished in newspapers, magazines and anthologies in the US and Europe. '¿¿Variously fantastic, comic, elegiac and nostalgic...a vivid, compassionate, authentic voice.'¿¿ New York Times Book Review
THERE IS NOTHING ORDINARY ABOUT IRISH PEOPLE "Quare Hawks is a collision between old and new Ireland. Both heartbreaking and hilarious, and hopeful and despairing. Eddie Stack has a way of making you laugh and cry at the same time. A brilliant collection from a great Irish storyteller." Willy Vlautin, author of Lean on Pete, Motel Life and Northline Quare Hawks is Eddie Stack's third collection of stories. It has 13 tales that span Ireland's boom to burst years, and are peopled by weird and wonderful characters. There's the love starved lady poet, a cross dresser who loves flowers, loss of virginity and loss of life, drinkers, psychotic genius, scammers and crustys and an American shrink who attends to the Irish and more. Reviewing Quare Hawks in The Reading Life blog, Mel Ulm wrote: "The people in his stories may just be "ordinary people" but there is nothing ordinary about the Irish and Stack does a wonderful job of proving this point. I recommend it to anyone who likes a good story, especially one set in the west of Ireland. Stack's stories are a delight to read, wonderfully written and have a strong insight into the human condition." Praise for Eddie Stack's writing: "Variously fantastic, comic, elegiac and nostalgic, Mr. Stack's fiction is versatile and engaging...a vivid, compassionate, authentic voice...securing (him) a place in the celebrated tradition of his country's storytelling." - New York Times Book Review "There's a genuinely wild and fugitive comic sense in these tales that puts one in mind of Myles na Gopaleen as much as the salt spume dam, George Makay Brown. Never sentimental, often funny, always accurate, this is pithy, finely tuned writing of a high order." - The Observer "Eddie Stack would drive you mad with merriment. He would also make you sigh soulfully for the human condition..." - Irish Edition "Exceptionally fine tuned...an authentic voice of the migrant Irish." - San Francisco Chronicle "Haunting stories...filled with beautifully sketched characters. A lively storyteller in a long and hallowed tradition." - Philadelphia Inquirer Eddie Stack is from County Clare, Ireland. He is the author of three collections of short stories, three novellas and a novel. He has received several accolades for his fiction, including an American Small Press of the Year Award, and a Top 100 Irish-American Award. His work has appeared in literary reviews and anthologies worldwide, including Fiction, Confrontation, Whispers & Shouts, Southwords and Criterion; State of the Art: Stories from New Irish Writers; Irish Christmas Stories, Cuadrivio, The Clare Anthology and Fiction in the Classroom. Eddie Stack teaches at U.C. Berkeley, California.
In The West, Eddie Stack evokes life in a series of cinematic prose portraits of people, places and situations. Each of the tales are remarkably different, but they click together to form a pattern. Several stories from this collection have been republished in newspapers, magazines and anthologies in the US and Europe. '¿¿Variously fantastic, comic, elegiac and nostalgic...a vivid, compassionate, authentic voice.'¿¿ New York Times Book Review
When Linda asked Al to tell her something funny she had no idea the joke wasn' a joke at all. But a tragic tale of events that happened to a young retarded boy who was pure and innocent. She had to know who did it and why? And so will you.
When Bobbie meets Mel he's fourteen, shooting speed, eating pills, and surviving by robbing vending machines, petty burglaries, and stealing car stereos. Mel knows things, like how to crack a safe, and he teaches Bobbie not only how to survive but how to actually thrive.
The weather is hot in southern Oklahoma, but the blackjack tables at the Fortune Frontier Casino are even hotter. They are so hot that a blackjack player is brutally murdered alongside a highway in broad daylight! Was he killed for the $12,000 in cash that he was carrying, or was the motive related to his blackjack game? This question is left up to a sharp-dressed FBI agent from Maine and a gorgeous southern Oklahoma deputy sheriff. If they can learn the game of blackjack, deal with a few unsavory casino managers, and survive the brutal Oklahoma heat, they might just be able to solve this murder case. With a little luck, they might even win a few bucks at the blackjack tables as well!
If it is desired to expand the retail trade in perishable fisheries products, and in some circumstances if is is even to maintain its present level, the individual retail trading enterprise will from time to time need special support, for example, by way of training, or education of the consumer. Any controlling legislation must take into account the peculiar requirements and circumstances of the fish trade; pulic infrastructure should permit the proper handling of a very perishable product. For those who may be responsible for providing such support or infrastructure, or for drafting and administering legislation, various systems of selling fresh fish are described and the principles that should govern their design and operation are noted. The systems covered are itinerant selling; market stalls; specialized shops and supermarkets.
The Eddie Stone Biography of the great Donald Goines, addict, thief, pimp, pusher, hoodlum, bootlegger, and a writer the mainstream press and critical journals only discovered in recent years. The complete Donald Goines story!
This in-depth compilation of the lives, works, and contributions of 12 icons of African-American comedy explores their impact on American entertainment and the way America thinks about race. Despite the popularity of comedic superstars like Bill Cosby and Whoopi Goldberg, few books have looked at the work of African-American comedians, especially those who, like Godfrey Cambridge and Moms Mabley, dramatically impacted American humor. Icons of African American Comedy remedies that oversight. Beginning with an introduction that explores the history and impact of black comedians, the book offers in-depth discussions of 12 of the most important African-American comedians of the past 100-plus years: Bert Williams, Moms Mabley, Redd Foxx, Dick Gregory, Flip Wilson, Godfrey Cambridge, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Whoopi Goldberg, Damon Wayans, Chris Rock, and Dave Chappelle. Each essay discusses the comedian's early life and offers an analysis of his or her contributions to American entertainment. Providing a variety of viewpoints on African-American comedy, the book shows how these comedians changed American comedy and American society.
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