The Dreams of Mairhe Mehan
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- Synopsis
- A haunting novel that weaves together its narrator's dreams, Irish legend, and the pivotal events of the American Civil War, "The Dreams of Mairhe Mehan", portrays a family of Irish immigrants struggling to find its identity in the new world, and a nation struggling to be born anew out of the carnage of war. Mairhe Mehan is sixteen, a resident of Swampoodle, Washington D.C.'s Irish slum. Here brother Mike, a laborer building the new dome of the U.S. Capitol, suddenly enlists as a volunteer in the Union Army, leaving Mairhe with her father, an ailing old man whose heart is in the Ireland he has left behind. Terrified for her brother's life and alone in a Washington filled with the fighting's chaotic overflow, Mairhe confronts her own choice between Ireland and America as the Civil War heads toward its defining moment at the Battle of Gettysburg.
- Copyright:
- 1996
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 124 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780679881520
- Publisher:
- Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated
- Date of Addition:
- 10/11/09
- Copyrighted By:
- Jennifer Armstrong
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Children's Books, Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Daproim Africa
- Proofread By:
- Daproim Africa
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.