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The Young Wan by Brendan O'Carroll (Paperback, 2004)

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In The Mammy, star Irish comedian Brendan O'Carroll introduced fans to the earthy and exuberant Agnes Browne, a fiesty young widow struggling to raise an unruly, high-spirited brood in The Jarro, the gritty tenement heart of 1960s Dublin. Over the course of two subsequent vels, The Chisellers and The Granny, fans accompanied her through all her children's escapades and the other adversities that challenged her starch, street smarts, and wit. Soon there was a movie, Agnes Browne. But hungry fans wanted more. Now, in The Young Wan, they have Agnes as even her children never saw her-a girl, a young wan, growing up in the 1940s. The shy child Agnes Reddin and Marion Delany, destined to be her lifelong best friend, together survive the indignities and demands of schoolteacher nuns, unwelcome siblings, first jobs, first dances, and first encounters with the opposite sex. Agnes learns the street market trade from a tough ex-con and is about to marry the good-for-thing charmer Redser Browne. But in a world where everyone kws everyone else's business, it's t only her motherwith a past of her own to recountwho fears Agnes will be turned away at the altar if she persists in wearing white. For within Agnes there buds already the first of the family to whom she'll become the ur-Irish mother. Filled with O'Carroll's trademark wicked wit and loving, larger-than-life characters, The Young Wan reveals the inner workings of one family and onewoman who cheerfully and irreverently defy everything life throws at them.

Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100452284848

ISBN-139780452284845

eBay Product ID (ePID)113859252

Product Key Features

Book TitleYoung Wan

Number of Pages224 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicCultural Heritage, Family Life, General, Literary

Publication Year2004

GenreFiction

AuthorBrendan O'carroll

Book SeriesAgnes Browne Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight6.9 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.3 in

Height210mm

Width140mm

Weight227g

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Place of PublicationLondon

Spine19mm

Country of PublicationUnited Kingdom

Author BiographyBrendan O'Carroll, the youngest of eleven children, was born in Stonybatter, a North Dublin neighborhood, in 1955. He is an acclaimed playwright and Ireland's most popular stand-up comedian. The creator of a hugely successful Irish radio show, Mrs. Browne's Boys (the genesis of his novels), O'Carroll is also an actor and has a role in the upcoming film version of Angela's Ashes. All the books in his Mrs. Browne trilogy were #1 bestsellers in his native Ireland. He lives in Dublin, Ireland.