Airs of Providence

by Jean McGarry and Professor Jean McGarry

Providence--a city named in the hope that a direct compliment to God might place Him under some sort of obligation to its inhabitants--provides Jean McGarry with the fertile ground of her comic and gritty, harsh and touching cycle of stories. Weaving in and out of Airs of Providence is a novella telling the story of April and Margery Flanaghan, two sisters trying to grow up in this neighborhood and doing only a so-so job of it. And it is a job,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801863678
• ISBN13: 9780801863677
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher