Pete Hamill sent us this great blurb for Peter Quinn's forthcoming LOOKING FOR JIMMY:
"This collection of Peter Quinn’s essays is a wonderful addition to the story of the Irish in America. Everything is here: the struggle against Know Nothing hostility, the willed amnesia about the bitter Irish past, the belief in hard work, along with the consolations of faith and politics and laughter. The essays are often as personal as memoir and objective as history. They teem with deep, surprising insights. And there is one additional value to this immensely valuable book: it can help the millions of New Immigrants to learn the lessons of the Irish. Everything that is now happening to them happened first to the Irish. Peter Quinn never has to make that point. But it’s on every page of his superb book."
Cheers! This, to go with the blurb by Frank McCourt:
"Though the author may be surprised to know it, Looking for Jimmy is a book about love. It sings from every page. love of family, love of Ireland, of America, of the craziness of the human race in general. And then, inevitable in a Quinn book, there is writing so tart, so poetic, so buoyant, you will claw yourself with envy. You don't have to be Irish or Irish-American to love this book. Whoever you are, you are in it. This is the kind of book you will want to bestow on anyone with, or without, a hyphen in their history."
Look for LOOKING FOR JIMMY in February 2007! Just around the corner!
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