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Subject: Memoir

ISBN: 9780786884148

EAN: 9780786884148

Publication Year: 1999

Format: Trade Paperback

Language: English

Book Title: Monk Swimming : a Memoir

Author: Malachy Mccourt

Features: Reprint

Publisher: Hyperion Press

Genre: Biography & Autobiography

Topic: Rich & Famous, Personal Memoirs, General, Entertainment & Performing Arts

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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 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.

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Hyperion Press

ISBN-10

0786884142

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9780786884148

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606128

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Publication Year

1999

Topic

Rich & Famous, Personal Memoirs, General, Entertainment & Performing Arts

Book Title

Monk Swimming : a Memoir

Language

English

Features

Reprint

Genre

Biography & Autobiography

Author

Malachy Mccourt

Format

Trade Paperback

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0.8in.

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8in.

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10.4 Oz

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5.2in.

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97-046720

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974.7

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Reprint

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F128.9.I6

Number of Pages

304 Pages

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by uladhulaidultan
07 Feb, 2016
A Monk Swimming Indeed
At first when reading this memoir by Malachy McCourt it was kind of hard to follow because he sometimes used some type of slang i didnt understand. Once I got used to some of the words he was using the book became understandable and I found it quite humerous. Not All of the book is in chronological order seeing as how he cuts in certain parts from his childhood but most of the book was about his adult life in America. If you are looking for something along the lines of Angelas Ashes or Tis by Frank McCourt this is definitely not your book.At first when reading this memoir by Malachy McCourt it was kind of hard to follow because he sometimes used some type of slang i didnt understand. Once I got used to some of the words he was using the book became understandable and I found it quite humerous. Not All of the book is in chronological order seeing as how he cuts in certain parts from his childhood but most of the book was about his adult life in America. If you are looking for something along the lines of Angelas Ashes or Tis by Frank McCourt this is definitely not your book.
by Z19wUpmyQJq@Deleted
12 Nov, 2010
A Monk Swimming
This is a marvelously written and very entertaining book. McCourt writes with a particularly Irish flair about his life which is part tragic, part outrageous, and often hilarious. I bought it to share with others.

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