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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Written by a gentle, caring individual, and in broad strokes not unlike Frank McCourt's memoirs, but not as stylistically rendered. His recollections of getting caught up in the Irish rebellion in the early 1920's are especially interesting. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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The story of Frank O'Connor is that of a shy child from a Cork slum who becomes aware that there is something beyond the confines of his life and the lives around him, something grander. And with resolve and labor, he makes his way toward it. From his childhood to the time of his release from imprisonment as a revolutionary, O 'Connor conveys the moral fortune and the tragic elements of life, that sparked his storytelling--a life he describes as a "celebration of those who for me represented all I should ever know of God." No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.912Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1901-1945LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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