The Resource We are not ourselves, Matthew Thomas
We are not ourselves, Matthew Thomas
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Resource Information
The item We are not ourselves, Matthew Thomas represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Coweta Public Library System.
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- Summary
- Born in 1941, Eileen Tumulty is raised by her Irish immigrant parents in Woodside, Queens, in an apartment where the mood swings between heartbreak and hilarity, depending on whether guests are over and how much alcohol has been consumed. When Eileen meets Ed Leary, a scientist whose bearing is nothing like those of the men she grew up with, she thinks she's found the perfect partner to deliver her to the cosmopolitan world she longs to inhabit. They marry, and Eileen quickly discovers Ed doesn't aspire to the same, ever bigger, stakes in the American Dream. Eileen encourages her husband to want more: a better job, better friends, a better house, but as years pass it becomes clear that his growing reluctance is part of a deeper psychological shift. An inescapable darkness enters their lives, and Eileen and Ed and their son Connell try desperately to hold together a semblance of the reality they have known, and to preserve, against long odds, an idea they have cherished of the future. Through the Learys, Thomas charts the story of the American Century, particularly the promise of domestic bliss and economic prosperity that captured hearts and minds after WWII
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 620 pages
- Isbn
- 9781476756660
- Label
- We are not ourselves
- Title
- We are not ourselves
- Statement of responsibility
- Matthew Thomas
- Title variation
- We're not ourselves
- Subject
-
- FICTION / Sagas
- Historical fiction
- trueHusband and wife
- Ireland -- Emigration and immigration | History -- Fiction
- trueIrish Americans
- Irish Americans -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Marital conflict -- Fiction
- trueMen/women relations
- trueNew York City
- Queens (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- trueQueens, New York City
- Scientists -- Fiction
- Adult children of alcoholics -- Fiction
- Ambition -- Fiction
- trueAmbition in women
- American Dream -- Fiction
- trueAmerican dream
- trueChildren of immigrants
- trueDomestic fiction
- FICTION / General
- FICTION / Literary
- trueFamily relationships
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Born in 1941, Eileen Tumulty is raised by her Irish immigrant parents in Woodside, Queens, in an apartment where the mood swings between heartbreak and hilarity, depending on whether guests are over and how much alcohol has been consumed. When Eileen meets Ed Leary, a scientist whose bearing is nothing like those of the men she grew up with, she thinks she's found the perfect partner to deliver her to the cosmopolitan world she longs to inhabit. They marry, and Eileen quickly discovers Ed doesn't aspire to the same, ever bigger, stakes in the American Dream. Eileen encourages her husband to want more: a better job, better friends, a better house, but as years pass it becomes clear that his growing reluctance is part of a deeper psychological shift. An inescapable darkness enters their lives, and Eileen and Ed and their son Connell try desperately to hold together a semblance of the reality they have known, and to preserve, against long odds, an idea they have cherished of the future. Through the Learys, Thomas charts the story of the American Century, particularly the promise of domestic bliss and economic prosperity that captured hearts and minds after WWII
- Award
- New York Times Notable Book, 2014
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10298727
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1975-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Thomas, Matthew
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3620.H63513
- LC item number
- W4 2014
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Irish Americans
- American Dream
- Marital conflict
- Scientists
- Adult children of alcoholics
- Ambition
- Ireland
- Queens (New York, N.Y.)
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Sagas
- FICTION / General
- Label
- We are not ourselves, Matthew Thomas
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 620 pages
- Isbn
- 9781476756660
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2013044414
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (OCoLC)862348423
- Label
- We are not ourselves, Matthew Thomas
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 620 pages
- Isbn
- 9781476756660
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2013044414
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (OCoLC)862348423
Subject
- FICTION / Sagas
- Historical fiction
- trueHusband and wife
- Ireland -- Emigration and immigration | History -- Fiction
- trueIrish Americans
- Irish Americans -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Marital conflict -- Fiction
- trueMen/women relations
- trueNew York City
- Queens (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- trueQueens, New York City
- Scientists -- Fiction
- Adult children of alcoholics -- Fiction
- Ambition -- Fiction
- trueAmbition in women
- American Dream -- Fiction
- trueAmerican dream
- trueChildren of immigrants
- trueDomestic fiction
- FICTION / General
- FICTION / Literary
- trueFamily relationships
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