Bold as brass is a collection of twenty-four stories set in waterbury, connecticut, once brass capital of the world. All the stories are works of fiction. They are the author's look into long-ago lives, both of her irish catholic family and of imagined characters who might have joined them in their daily goings on, in a period of time that stretches from the thirties through the fifties. Whether the charact ...Täielik kirjeldus
Bold as brass is a collection of twenty-four stories set in waterbury, connecticut, once brass capital of the world. All the stories are works of fiction. They are the author's look into long-ago lives, both of her irish catholic family and of imagined characters who might have joined them in their daily goings on, in a period of time that stretches from the thirties through the fifties. Whether the characters are swimming at scovill's dam on a hot summer day and wondering what is beneath that water or telling stories around the kitchen table on a rainy afternoon, making a pilgrimage to saint anne de beaupre in canada to request a baby or bearing gifts to a birthday celebration with mixed results, their stories are presented in a way that shows how insightful commonplace occurrences can prove to be.