Bøger af Charles Fanning

Finley Peter Dunne, American journalist and humorist, is justly famous for his creation of Mr. Dooley, the Chicago Irish barkeep whose weekly commentary on national politics, war, and human nature kept Americans chuckling over their newspapers for nearly two decades at the beginning of this century.

In this study, Charles Fanning has written the first general account of the origins and development of a literary tradition among American writers of Irish birth or background who have explored the Irish immigrant or ethnic experience in works of fiction.

This memoir centres on family life in a Massachusetts town from the 1920s to the 1960s. The author was born and raised in Norwood, and the narrative traces his personal growth, shaped by family, school, baseball, radio drama and art.