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After the Voyage

An Irish American Story
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At the heart of After the Voyage is an American immigrant family making its way forward on a road that is sometimes rocky and steep. From different counties in Ireland, Maggie Qualter and Richard Terrett both sail to America as young adults in 1870 after surviving Ireland's Great Hunger as children. Maggie works as a maid for a wealthy family. Richard finds work in a tannery. After the death of the young wife he loves passionately, Richard marries Maggie with the help of a deceptive go-between who brews trouble in their marriage that never goes away. They raise three children in the midst of Irish American culture, the Catholic Church, and Richard's battles for the workingman in the Knights of Labor. Their daughter Mary dreams of being a nun, while Josie seeks the freedom of big-city life in Boston. Neither reckons on the future she will face, Mary as a wife and mother of nine children and Josie as a single working woman. Son Tom escapes factory life by joining the Navy, manages to see the world in the midst of two wars, and comes home to marry his sweetheart and start a new life. Their stories are both remarkable and familiar to everyone whose ancestors made their way to and in America.The events in the Terretts' lives are as they emerge from the public record. But their inner lives, their thoughts, their relationships, their words are imagined as a route to understanding these five complicated and fascinating people.

Author Biography:

Brenda Murphy has written nine books and edited or co-edited eleven more, mostly about American drama and theater. Her subjects have included American women playwrights, Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, and many others. Brenda taught American literature and drama for many years, first at St. Lawrence University and then at The University of Connecticut, where she became an avid fan of women's basketball. Recently, she has concentrated on writing criticism, biography and fact-based historical fiction. She and her husband make their home in Connecticut.
Release date Australia
March 22nd, 2016
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Pages
312
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Dimensions
140x216x18
ISBN-13
9780997366907
Product ID
25179227

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