{"product_id":"9780873385763","title":"She Loved Me Once: And Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eLester Goran’s first book of short stories, \u003cb\u003eTales from the Irish Club,\u003c\/b\u003e was chosen by the \u003cb\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e as a “Notable Book of the Year 1996.” This second collection also centers around a group of men and women in an Irish-American enclave in Pittsburgh, primarily during the years surrounding World War II, but extending at times into the eighties.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith evocative settings and narratives ranging from the supernatural to the humorous, from bawdy hilarity to richly detailed realism, Goran creates once more his world of poignant and magical times and places within the mundane affairs of ordinary men and women. With his mastery of language and images he shows again what Paul West has termed “the lunatic sadness of things.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the \u003cb\u003ePittsburgh Post—Gazette\u003c\/b\u003e noted in its review of \u003cb\u003eTales from the Irish Club,\u003c\/b\u003e “His many characters come alive with an immediacy and clarity that makes their stories seem like today’s gossip.” \u003cb\u003eShe Loved Me Once and Other Stories\u003c\/b\u003e is a worthy successor to that book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kent State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008822886640,"sku":"9780873385763","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780873385763_p0.jpg?v=1763829843","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780873385763","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}