Author: Maureen Waters

Title: Crossing Highbridge: A Memoir of Irish America (Irish Studies)

Binding: Hardcover

Number Of Pages: 168

Release Date: 2001-04-01

Details: The first in her family born in the United States, Maureen Waters grew up the "Bronx Irish" daughter of two unforgettable immigrants: her storytelling, former revolutionary father, and her fierce, IRA-supporting mother. Crossing Highbridge is framed by the accidental death of Waters's son and her struggle to make sense of this loss by re-imagining her past and her heritage. Her life in postwar New York City was colored by Catholicism and strong cultural links to "the other side"--by Irish step dancing, the melodies of Thomas Moore, and the rituals, inflections, and harrowing memories impressed on her. Sex was a mystery. Schoolgirls wore below-the-knee blue serge uniforms with starched white collars and cuffs. Brutal treatment at the hands of the nuns who ran her college drove Waters to transfer to a secular school. Waters rebelled against an upbringing that seemed to wall her off from the twentieth century. She marr ed outside the church, divorced, and became a scholar and professor at the City University of New York. Waters follows in the tradition of her father with this vividly humorous and moving true tale.

EAN: 9780815606826

Package Dimensions: Height: 9.32998134 Inches, Length: 6.27998744 Inches, Weight: 0.8928721611 Pounds, Width: 0.71999856 Inches

Languages: en