{"product_id":"yellow-roses-9781531507350","title":"Yellow Roses","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA captivating collection unveiling the intricacies of love, life, and legacy\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese twelve stories, told from the viewpoint of young women in life's mid-passage, explore the splendors and miseries of love, both carnal and spiritual, and cast back through sickness and health to the engraving experiences of childhood and forward to the rituals and release of death and its occasion for recall. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThey tell us of a dutiful but not guiltless daughter faced with the wreckage a father has made of his life, of the pain of trying to steer steadily through a doomed affair with a dearly loved married man, and of the ironies attending the funeral of a priest uncle and the birthday of an aged mother. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the outwardly unremarkable frame of a single day-on Fire Island or in New York-an entire life and an encompassment of humanity are movingly conveyed. Then, with inverted telescope, the most subjective of inner realms is explored-through a hospital stay, a sudden name change, or the surprising end of all those dreaded piano lessons. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaken together, these stories are a far greater whole than the sum of their remarkable parts, an unfor-gettable exploration of the paradoxical toughness and vulnerability that define the mortal condition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Cullinan (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Irene Cullinan \u003c\/b\u003e(June 7, 1933-January 26, 2020) was an Irish-American writer who started her career as a typist at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003emagazine, which published her stories from 1960 to 1981. She produced two short story collections, \u003ci\u003eThe Time of Adam \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eYellow Roses\u003c\/i\u003e, and two novels, \u003ci\u003eHouse of Gold \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eA Change of Scene\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAngela Alaimo O'Donnell (Foreword By) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAngela Alaimo O'Donnell\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor, writer, and poet at Fordham University and the Associate Director of Fordham's Curran Center for American Catholic Studies. Among her recent books are \u003ci\u003eFlannery O'Connor: Fiction Fired by Faith \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAndalusian Hours: Poems from the Porch of Flannery O'Connor\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New York Relit","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50718958911762,"sku":"9781531507350","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7cb4b786-db20-47b1-b238-5eb4ad610ca2.jpg?v=1734654384","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/yellow-roses-9781531507350","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}