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MALACHY MCCOURT • A MONK SWIMMING • SIGNED FIRST EDITION 1ST PRINT • IRISH NYC
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Signed By
- Malachy McCourt
- Signed
- Yes
- Book Series
- Angela’s Ashes
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Original Language
- English
- Intended Audience
- Adults, Young Adults
- Inscribed
- Yes
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Vintage
- Yes
- Type
- Novel
- Literary Movement
- Irish America, New York Memoir
- Era
- 1990s
- Special Attributes
- 1st Edition
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- Dust Jacket, Signed, First Edition, First Printing, Unread, As New, Irish America, New York Memoir, Brother Of Frank McCourt
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9780786863983
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Hyperion Press
ISBN-10
0786863986
ISBN-13
9780786863983
eBay Product ID (ePID)
613160
Product Key Features
Book Title
Monk Swimming : a Memoir
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1998
Topic
Rich & Famous, Personal Memoirs, General, Entertainment & Performing Arts
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
20.2 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
97-046720
TitleLeading
A
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
974.7
Synopsis
Slapped with a libel suit after an appearance on a talk show, Malachy McCourt crows, "If they could only see me now 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 acknowledges 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., Slapped with a libel suit after an appearance on a talk show, Malachy McCourt crows, "If they could only see me now 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 acknowledges 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.
LC Classification Number
F128.9.I6M376 1998
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