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005    20140606034401.0 
008    131125s2014    nyu      b    001 0 eng   
010      2013044414 
020    9781476756660|q(hardback) 
020    147675666X|q(hardback) 
035    (OCoLC)862348423 
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042    pcc 
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050 00 PS3620.H63513|bW4 2014 
082 00 813/.6|223 
084    FIC019000|aFIC008000|aFIC000000|2bisacsh 
100 1  Thomas, Matthew,|d1975- 
245 10 We are not ourselves :|ba novel /|cMatthew Thomas. 
250    First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. 
263    1409 
264  1 New York :|bSimon & Schuster,|c2014. 
300    620 pages ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "Born in 1941, Eileen Tumulty is raised by her Irish 
       immigrant parents in Woodside, Queens, in an apartment 
       where the mood swings between heartbreak and hilarity, 
       depending on whether guests are over and how much alcohol 
       has been consumed. Eileen can't help but dream of a calmer
       life, in a better neighborhood. When Eileen meets Ed Leary,
       a scientist whose bearing is nothing like those of the men
       she grew up with, she thinks she's found the perfect 
       partner to deliver her to the cosmopolitan world she longs
       to inhabit. They marry, and Eileen quickly discovers Ed 
       doesn't aspire to the same, ever bigger, stakes in the 
       American Dream. Eileen encourages her husband to want more
       : a better job, better friends, a better house, but as 
       years pass it becomes clear that his growing reluctance is
       part of a deeper psychological shift. An inescapable 
       darkness enters their lives, and Eileen and Ed and their 
       son Connell try desperately to hold together a semblance 
       of the reality they have known, and to preserve, against 
       long odds, an idea they have cherished of the future. 
       Through the Learys, novelist Matthew Thomas charts the 
       story of the American Century, particularly the promise of
       domestic bliss and economic prosperity that captured 
       hearts and minds after WWII. The result is a powerfully 
       affecting work of art; one that reminds us that life is 
       more than a tally of victories and defeats, that we live 
       to love and be loved, and that we should tell each other 
       so before the moment slips away. Epic in scope, heroic in 
       character, masterful in prose, We Are Not Ourselves is a 
       testament to our greatest desires and our greatest 
       frailties."--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Irish Americans|xHistory|y20th century|vFiction. 
650  7 FICTION / Literary.|2bisacsh 
650  7 FICTION / Sagas.|2bisacsh 
650  7 FICTION / General.|2bisacsh 
651  0 Ireland|xEmigration and immigration|xHistory|vFiction. 
651  0 Queens (New York, N.Y.)|xHistory|y20th century|vFiction. 
655  7 Historical fiction.|2gsafd 
655  7 Domestic fiction.|2lcgft 
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