ASIN: B00BY8928S
Publisher: McPherson
Pages: 32
" 'Names' is a novella-length yarn of the reverberations of one night's drunken escapade into a monumental feud between the sons and daughters of Thomas Dunn and James Gallun. The events take place in the forbidding north of Scotland in the first half of the twentieth century. The monologue is told not to the reader, exactly, but to another character, a grandson, so that the family history should not be forgotten. "As the history unfolds, family stories begin to enter. At times these stories have morals, at others they are fable-like in their home truths; often they are told because they just seem to come up in the mind of the history teller—they are told for the pleasure in the recalling of them. And soon one knows that the stories are the meat on the bones of genealogy; they are the family. And as the narrative proceeds, through the stories and the telling, the heroic past emerges ...
