02347cam a2200337 i 4500 213732218 TxAuBib 20150424120000.0 140911t20152014||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2014036002 9781410475480 large print : hardcover 1410475484 large print : hardcover (OCoLC)890793085 TxAuBib rda Thomas, Matthew, 1975- We are not ourselves / Matthew Thomas. Large print edition. Farmington Hills, Mich : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015. ©2014. 843 pages (large print) ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Born in 1941, Eileen Tumulty is raised by her Irish immigrant parents in Woodside, Queens, in an apartment where the mood swings between heartbreak and hilarity, depending on whether guests are over and how much alcohol has been consumed. When Eileen meets Ed Leary, a scientist whose bearing is nothing like those of the men she grew up with, she thinks she's found the perfect partner to deliver her to the cosmopolitan world she longs to inhabit. They marry, and Eileen quickly discovers Ed doesn't aspire to the same, ever bigger, stakes in the American Dream. Eileen encourages her husband to want more: a better job, better friends, a better house, but as years pass it becomes clear that his growing reluctance is part of a deeper psychological shift. An inescapable darkness enters their lives, and Eileen and Ed and their son Connell try desperately to hold together a semblance of the reality they have known, and to preserve, against long odds, an idea they have cherished of the future. Through the Learys, Thomas charts the story of the American Century, particularly the promise of domestic bliss and economic prosperity that captured hearts and minds after WWII.-- (Source of description not identified.) 20150424. Irish Americans Fiction. Ireland Emigration and immigration Fiction. Large type books. Historical fiction. Queens (New York, N.Y) Fiction.