{"product_id":"no-harm-done-paperback","title":"No Harm Done - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJean McGarry\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 242\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.5 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 21, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42165135212679,"sku":"9781943150076","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/c57b8c55cf6e47e027b2d62175affec6.webp?v=1733311229","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/no-harm-done-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}