She is now Associate Director of Creative Writing at University College Cork. : Mother Of Pearl (9781784703783) by Morrissy, Mary and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Born in Dublin in 1957, she is the author of three novels, Mother of Pearl, The Pretender. In 2005/6 she was a Cullman Centre Fellow at the New York Public Library.įor over 30 years, she has worked as a journalist with three national dailies, The Irish Press, Irish Times and Irish Examiner and since 2000, has taught creative writing in Ireland and the US, including the University of Iowa, George Washington University, University of Arkansas, Trinity College Dublin and UCD. Mary Morrissy is a novelist, short story writer and journalist. She was awarded the prestigious US Lannan Foundation Award in 1995. Her short fiction has been anthologised widely and won her a Hennessy Award in 1984. Title: Mother Of Pearl Item Condition: used item in a very good condition. When Irene Rivers, who's already suffered the indignities of tuberculosis and an unloving family, realizes that she'll never give birth to a child of her own, she walks into a hospital maternity. Author: Mary Morrissy ISBN 10: 0099582511. Mother of Pearl, her first novel, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award (now Costa) The Pretender and The Rising of Bella Casey have both been nominated for the Dublin International Literary Award. A triptych about motherhoodportraits of three troubled women whose stories are deeply, darkly, inextricably linkedfrom critic and first-novelist Morrissy, fiction reviewer for The Irish Times. Born in Dublin in 1957, she is the author of three novels, Mother of Pearl, The Pretender and The Rising of Bella Casey and two collections of stories, A Lazy Eye and most recently, Prosperity Drive. Mary Morrissy is a novelist, short story writer and journalist.

Mother of Pearl by Mary Morrissy