"Epic in its scope but relentlessly compelling in its storytelling -- not a common combination -- Broken Irish is a splendidly readable and richly textured novel. Edward J. Delaney is an enormously gifted writer." -- Robert Olen Butler, author of A ...
Set in the gloomy depths of the granite-block textile mills of the industrial Northeast, Warp & Weft illuminates the lives of three generations of men who toil together. Carey, the leader of the small crew who load and unload the endless processi...
"Follow the Sun is just plain fantastic. Edward J. Delaney has orchestrated a tight, tense page-turner and a harrowing, deeply imagined literary portrait of an entire family. . . . What a knockout read." -- Paul Harding"In this pungent, gritty novel...
In prairie towns and backwaters, and in the big cities, people search for themselves and their lost way. Is the American dream still possible in this big, harsh land?The short fiction in The Big Impossible explores guilt and redemption, aspiration an...
An Oprah Daily Best Novel Based on a True Story“Delaney[‘s] splendid fictional biography of Cary Grant . . . perfectly befits the glamour and fakery of his subject.” -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Everyone wants to be Cary G...
“[Delaney] cares about details and understands their importance to the larger themes of loss, desperation, and betrayed loyalties. His characters are . . . fully realized, familiar people, whose failures are heartbreakingly authentic.” ...