Crossing Highbridge: A Memoir of Irish America
Maureen Waters
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The first in her family born in the United States, Maureen Waters grew up the "Bronx Irish" daughter of two unforgettable immigrants: her storytelling, former revolutionary father, and her fierce, IRA-supporting mother. Crossing Highbridge is framed by the accidental death of Waters's son and her struggle to make sense of this loss by re-imagining her past and her heritage. Her life in postwar New York City was colored by Catholicism and strong cultural links to "the other side"--by Irish step dancing, the melodies of Thomas Moore, and the rituals, inflections, and harrowing memories impressed on her. Sex was a mystery. Schoolgirls wore below-the-knee blue serge uniforms with starched white collars andcuffs. Brutal treatment at the hands of the nuns who ran her college drove Waters to transfer to a secular school. Waters rebelled against an upbringing that seemed to wall her off from the twentieth century. She marr ed outside the church, divorced, and became a scholar and professor at the City University of New York. Waters follows in the tradition of her father with this vividly humorous and moving true tale.Binding Type: HardcoverAuthor: Maureen WatersPublisher: Syracuse University PressPublished: 04/01/2001ISBN: 9780815606826Pages: 168Weight: 0.92lbsSize: 9.33h x 6.28w x 0.72dReview Citations: Women's Review of Books 09/01/2001 pg. 22Commonweal 02/22/2002 pg. 22Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 59
cuffs. Brutal treatment at the hands of the nuns who ran her college drove Waters to transfer to a secular school. Waters rebelled against an upbringing that seemed to wall her off from the twentieth century. She marr ed outside the church, divorced, and became a scholar and professor at the City University of New York. Waters follows in the tradition of her father with this vividly humorous and moving true tale.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Maureen Waters
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 04/01/2001
ISBN: 9780815606826
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.33h x 6.28w x 0.72d
Review Citations: Women's Review of Books 09/01/2001 pg. 22
Commonweal 02/22/2002 pg. 22
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 59
cuffs. Brutal treatment at the hands of the nuns who ran her college drove Waters to transfer to a secular school. Waters rebelled against an upbringing that seemed to wall her off from the twentieth century. She marr ed outside the church, divorced, and became a scholar and professor at the City University of New York. Waters follows in the tradition of her father with this vividly humorous and moving true tale.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Maureen Waters
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 04/01/2001
ISBN: 9780815606826
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.33h x 6.28w x 0.72d
Review Citations: Women's Review of Books 09/01/2001 pg. 22
Commonweal 02/22/2002 pg. 22
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 59
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Crossing Highbridge: A Memoir of Irish America
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9780815606826
The first in her family born in the United States, Maureen Waters grew up the "Bronx Irish" daughter of two unforgettable immigrants: her storytelling, former revolutionary father, and her fierce, IRA-supporting mother. Crossing Highbridge is framed by the accidental death of Waters's son and her struggle to make sense of this loss by re-imagining her past and her heritage.
Her life in postwar New York City was colored by Catholicism and strong cultural links to "the other side"--by Irish step dancing, the melodies of Thomas Moore, and the rituals, inflections, and harrowing memories impressed on her. Sex was a mystery. Schoolgirls wore below-the-knee blue serge uniforms with starched white collars andcuffs. Brutal treatment at the hands of the nuns who ran her college drove Waters to transfer to a secular school. Waters rebelled against an upbringing that seemed to wall her off from the twentieth century. She marr ed outside the church, divorced, and became a scholar and professor at the City University of New York. Waters follows in the tradition of her father with this vividly humorous and moving true tale.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Maureen Waters
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 04/01/2001
ISBN: 9780815606826
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.33h x 6.28w x 0.72d
Review Citations: Women's Review of Books 09/01/2001 pg. 22
Commonweal 02/22/2002 pg. 22
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 59
The first in her family born in the United States, Maureen Waters grew up the "Bronx Irish" daughter of two unforgettable immigrants: her storytelling, former revolutionary father, and her fierce, IRA-supporting mother. Crossing Highbridge is framed by the accidental death of Waters's son and her struggle to make sense of this loss by re-imagining her past and her heritage.
Her life in postwar New York City was colored by Catholicism and strong cultural links to "the other side"--by Irish step dancing, the melodies of Thomas Moore, and the rituals, inflections, and harrowing memories impressed on her. Sex was a mystery. Schoolgirls wore below-the-knee blue serge uniforms with starched white collars andcuffs. Brutal treatment at the hands of the nuns who ran her college drove Waters to transfer to a secular school. Waters rebelled against an upbringing that seemed to wall her off from the twentieth century. She marr ed outside the church, divorced, and became a scholar and professor at the City University of New York. Waters follows in the tradition of her father with this vividly humorous and moving true tale.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Maureen Waters
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 04/01/2001
ISBN: 9780815606826
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.33h x 6.28w x 0.72d
Review Citations: Women's Review of Books 09/01/2001 pg. 22
Commonweal 02/22/2002 pg. 22
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 59
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