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Harp by John Gregory Dunne is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Harp about?

"A book that welcomes you in, talks to you wonderfully for a while, takes you into its confidence." —The Los Angeles Times. In Harp, John Gregory Dunne brings home his celebrated gifts for keen observation, close reporting and vigorous humor to deliver a superbly engaging account of his life as a Hartford, Connecticut-raised Irish Catholic whose family on his mother's side traveled from "steerage to suburbia in three generations." At the start of what Dunne calls "autobiographical examinations," he tells of a health crisis: "The medical dyes shooting through my arterial freeways were forced to make a detour around a major obstruction." This reminder of mortality moves him to reflect upon the course of his life and the story of his family, a saga that begins with his mother's father D.F. Burns, who left Ireland's County Roscommon and rose from butcher's clerk to wealthy banker, becoming a West Hartford "man of substance." En route to a concluding section detailing Dunne's first trip to Ireland, the writer questing to learn more about his family origins, Harp shares stories of aunts and uncles, his surgeon father and hard-to-please mother, and his younger brother Stephen, a married f

Who reads Harp?

Author

John Gregory Dunne

Publisher

Zola Books

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781939126184

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Fiction