Van Douglas

The Irish Fiction Conspiracy Van Douglas

This is the saga of how Winston O'Salem wrote three vacuous short stories that he combined, in the style James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, into an even more vacuous novel entitled Blackberries are from Mars, iPods are from Venus. But most important, this is tale lays out the particulars of how he came to believe, or, at times convenient to him, at least say, it was possible, that his father Kent O'Salem is right, the Irish in America are the victims of ongoing discrimination by just about everybody.