Reviews
Praise for Jean McGarry: McGarry keenly depicts both working-class and privileged cultures with deft, comic, and devastatingly precise portraits.
Jean McGarry's fictions invite you into their rooms as though you were a welcome and sympathetic relation... they trust language. They construct characters... They try, in Joseph Conrad's words, to make us see.
McGarry's thickly layered prose, with its stunning emotional accuracies, is always just on the verge of exploding into dream or fantasy, or, as in The Very Rich Hours, into delusions.
A gifted observer, records with fidelity the daily minutiae of life and introspection.
Book Details
1. Providence, 1954: Watch
Penmanship
2. Providence, 1956: Toy Box
Stayed Back
3. Providence, 1934: The House at the Beach
They Meet a Boy
4. Providence, 1970: Behind This Soft Eclipse
The Hospital: Seeing
1. Providence, 1954: Watch
Penmanship
2. Providence, 1956: Toy Box
Stayed Back
3. Providence, 1934: The House at the Beach
They Meet a Boy
4. Providence, 1970: Behind This Soft Eclipse
The Hospital: Seeing Him There Almost Dead
5. Providence, 1957: An Accident
The Babysitter
6. Providence, 1948: The Most Complimentary Thing
Margery's Prom
7. Providence, 1960: Cavities
One of Them Gets Married
8. Providence, 1966: Ducks and Lucks