Outlaws of the Purple Cow and Other Stories

Year of Publication
1999
Publication Type
Short Stories
Number of Pages or Episodes
358 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: Lester Goran
Publisher
Kent State University Press
City
Kent, OH
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Abstract
Goran’s third collection of short stories set in Pittsburgh's Irish Club: the nickname of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Local No. 9, in a second floor loft on Oakland Avenue. These stories revolve around the club, a sort of town hall and village green for the close-knit Irish-American community.
Notes

Settings are referred to by their historical names as follows: Carlow University is Mt. Mercy College; Robert Morris University is Robert Morris College; Carnegie Mellon University is Carnegie Institute of Technology. Allegheny County Industrial and Training School for Boys is referred to as Thorn Hill Reformatory, as it was commonly known.

Author Biography
Lester Goran (1928-2014), born and raised in a housing project in Pittsburgh's Hill District, was a novelist and professor of English at the University of Miami. He attended Pittsburgh's Fifth Avenue High School and Schenley High School and he earned a BA and MA in English at the University of Pittsburgh. For more than 50 years he wrote fiction set in Pittsburgh. He lived in Miami, Florida.
Time
1945-73
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