Product Description: In this, his third collection of stories, Lester Goran moves us again through the times and places indelibly stamped with his wit and insight about people and events lost to history. Outlaws of the Purple Cow centers around the domains of Irish-American men and women in Pittsburgh...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

In June of 1968, just after the assassination of Robert Kennedy, Daly Racklin becomes the reluctant leader of the dying Irish community of Oakland Park in Pittsburgh

Product Description: Lester Goran's first book of short stories, Tales from the Irish Club, was chosen by the New York Times Book Review as a "Notable Book of the Year 1996." This second collection also centers around a group of men and women in an Irish-American enclave in Pittsburgh, primarily during the years surrounding World War II, but extending at times into the eighties...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Short stories about life in a working-class Irish American neighborhood in Pittsburgh between World War II and the Vietnam War, some told from the point of view of a Jewish resident, focus on the men who frequent the local branch of the Ancient Order of Hibernians (view table of contents)

Telling the story of an extraordinary friendship, a close friend and translator of the eminent Polish-American author, Isaac Bashevis Singer, offers understanding of the moral dimensions of Singer's art and his struggles with loss, age, and fame. UP.

Set in 1890, this novel follows Roxanne, a woman of indomitable will who emerges from rustic origins to the lustrous world of Diamond Jim Brady