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A Monk Swimming: A Memoir by Malachy McCourt (Paperback 1999)
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- Condition
- Very good
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- “slight cover crease on cover, corner and edge reading wear, tanning”
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Book Title
- A Monk Swimming
- Format
- Paperback / Softback, Trade Paperback (US) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Hyperion Books
- Topic
- Biography: General
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Slapped with a libel suit after an appearance on a talk show, Malachy McCourt crows, If they could only see me w in the slums of Limerick, a big shot, sued for a million. Bejesus, isn't America a great and wonderful country? His older brother Frank's Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, Angela's Ashes, took its somber tone from the bleak atmosphere of those slums, while Malachy's boisterous recollections are fueled by his zestful appreciation for the opportunities and oddities of his native land. He and Frank were born in Brooklyn, moved with their parents to Ireland as children, then returned to the States as adults. This book covers the decade 1952-63, when Malachy roistered across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, but spent most of his time in New York City. There his ready wit and quick tongue won him an acting job with the Irish Players, a semiregular stint on The Tonight Show hosted by Jack Paar, and friendships with some well-heeled, well-born types who shared his fondness for saloon life and bankrolled him in an East Side saloon that may have been the first singles bar. He chronicles those events--and many others--with back-slapping bonhomie. Although McCourt ackwledges the personal demons that pursued him from his poverty-stricken childhood and destroyed his first marriage, this is on the whole an exuberant autobiography that pays tribute to the joys of a freewheeling life.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Hyperion Books
ISBN-10
0786884142
ISBN-13
9780786884148
eBay Product ID (ePID)
183606275
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Format
Paperback / Softback, Trade Paperback (US) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound
Language
English
Topic
Biography: General
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Date of Publication
02/06/1999
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Country of Publication
United States
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