Blood Sisters is a gripping story created with themes of real substance and wide appeal. While this sizzling novel is considered a classic of 1970s feminist literary fiction, the story is all too timely today as we face violent debate about national and ethnic autonomy in Ireland and elsewhere. Journalists witness ground wars and terrorist responses in detailed news reports, but Valerie Miner has divined a passionate full-blooded story about the individuals and families behind those headlines. At the heart of Blood Sisters are two cousins, one Irish, one American, who grew up steeped in their mothers’ ideals of the 1916 Uprising. The two young women try to understand each other’s views, to cross the blurry lines between private and political life, but are divided by their separate histories and often despair at the possibility of comprehension, let alone reconciliation. Blood Sisters intricately combines important issues within the tense format of a thriller. Miner subtly explores the relationships among women of different generations, unexpected and unacceptable romance, the daily dramas of immigrant life, and the struggle of Irish people to discover and create their own identity and autonomy. Blood Sisters with its suspenseful story, its crucial questions, its vibrant humor and its evocative descriptions is a tour de force by one of the most important writers of her generation.

Blood sisters: An examination of conscience

Miner, Valerie

St.Martin's Press

Blood Sisters: An Examination of Conscience

Literature & Fiction

United States

St Martins Pr

A mystery involving a feminist fighting for tenure at the University of California at Berkeley and the murder of a man in the English Department, who was known for sexually harassing women.

Murder in the English Department

A gripping novel of politics, academia, and murderAssistant professor Nan Weaver, an outspoken feminist, is working toward tenure at Berkeley. Nan’s blue-collar family left her with a legacy of endurance and hard work, and she is dedicated to her ideals and her students.But Nan’s bold campaign against on-campus sexual harassment may be putting her career prospects in jeopardy. When an infamously chauvinistic male English professor turns up dead in his office, everyone suspects activist Nan. But she is innocent. And she knows who the murderer is.A fast-paced, nontraditional mystery that places a strong woman in a battle for her innocence and principles, Murder in the English Department is a must-read for academics and mystery lovers alike.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

METHUEN

Movement: A Novel in Stories

Methuen Publishing, Ltd.

A retrospective of the women's movement of the '60s and '70s by a noted feminist novelist and journalist.

Rumors from the Cauldron: Selected Essays, Reviews, and Reportage

History & Criticism

Univ of Michigan Pr

A retrospective of the women's movement of the '60s and '70s by a noted feminist novelist and journalist.

Two cousins, one American and one English, become caught up in the political turmoil of the IRA and their search for their own identities as women

Blood Sisters

Interlink Publishing+group Inc

"Here comes a walking fire," the Fool says to Lear as he sees Gloucester walking across a heath carrying a torch. This novel opens in fall, 1988, as Cora, an anti-war activist, returns to the U.S. from Canada where she has lived for twenty years. A college student in the mid-sixties, Cora becomes politically curious, then joins the anti-war movement. Based on King Lear and written from the point of view of Cordelia, the book weighs definitions of patriotism and loyalty. In her return as in her past, Cora is testing borders between suffering and virtue, idealism and commitment, self and family, and exploring possibilities of change.

A Walking Fire (Suny Series, the Margins of Literature)

State University of New York Press

“Here comes a walking fire,” the Fool says to Lear as he sees Gloucester walking across a heath carrying a torch. This novel opens in fall, 1988, as Cora, an anti-war activist, returns to the U.S. from Canada where she has lived for twenty years. A college student in the mid-sixties, Cora becomes politically curious, then joins the anti-war movement. Based on King Lear and written from the point of view of Cordelia, the book weighs definitions of patriotism and loyalty. In her return as in her past, Cora is testing borders between suffering and virtue, idealism and commitment, self and family, and exploring possibilities of change.

A Walking Fire: A Novel (SUNY Series, Margins of Literature) (Suny Series, the Margins of Literature)

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Blood sisters: An examination of conscience

Blood Sisters: An Examination of Conscience

Murder in the English Department

Murder in the English Department

Movement: A Novel in Stories

Rumors from the Cauldron: Selected Essays, Reviews, and Reportage

Rumors from the Cauldron: Selected Essays, Reviews, and Reportage

Blood Sisters

A Walking Fire (Suny Series, the Margins of Literature)

A Walking Fire: A Novel (SUNY Series, Margins of Literature) (Suny Series, the Margins of Literature)