Kerry Sheridan

Bagpipe Brothers

The Fdny Band's True Story of Tragedy, Mourning, and Recovery

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Produktbeschreibung

Bagpipe Brothers tells the unforgettable story of four firefighters in the New York City's Emerald Society Bagpipe Band of firefighter-musicians, who struggled to bring peace to their families and themselves while searching for the dead, coping with the endless round of funerals, and rethinking the meaning of faith. Their experiences illustrate the grief and recovery of the nation in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780813538617
• ISBN-10: 0813538610
• Artikelnr.: 22148043

Autorenporträt

KERRY SHERIDAN is an editor on the Middle East desk of Agence France Presse in Cyprus. She has worked as a freelance correspondent in Cairo, Egypt, and has written for the San Francisco Chronicle and Irish American newspapers in New York and California.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Prologue
Introduction
1. Irish Fair
2. The Brunton Brothers
3. September 11
4. Dawning of the Daw
5. The Funerals
6. Discovery
7. Laying to Rest
8. Thanksgiving
9. End of the Line
10. Holiday
11. Home Turf
12. Lost Celebrations
13. Closing Ground Zero
Epilogue
Notes