{"product_id":"no-harm-done-9781943150076","title":"No Harm Done","description":"\u003cp\u003eA collection of fifteen stories, Jean McGarry's \u003ci\u003eNo Harm Done\u003c\/i\u003e, depicts family life at its worst, best, and funniest, as if the author had conjoined the lunacy of \u003ci\u003eCold Comfort Farm\u003c\/i\u003e with the bitter grievances of Dubliners. As the author writes in \"Strong Boy,\" this might be \"...because every family, rich or poor, is roughage.\" \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe characters, gallant, goofy, gifted, and grim, include sickly mothers of a dozen children, boozy fathers with a gift of the gab, kids aspiring to be nuns and priests, or just to get out of town with a whole skin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA section is devoted to one marriage made in heaven: a Jewish psychoanalyst devoted to his ex-nun wife. Another set of stories reworks familiar fairy tales, setting them in the wild present. \u003ci\u003eNo Harm Done\u003c\/i\u003e (whose title is Irish code for wishful thinking) concludes with a truce to the war between the sexes, and indeed a 'solution' to the tragicomedy that is marriage and family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-226366\"\u003eJean McGarry\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dalkey Archive Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/21\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 242\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781943150076\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1943150079\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44575378047213,"sku":"9781943150076","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_8abd9234-9e1a-4f90-b67e-05ca33a77aca.jpg?v=1701996525","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/no-harm-done-9781943150076","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}