Beschreibung:
By Malachy McCourt
A private tour through the world of Frank McCourt's Pulitzer Prize winning memoir.
Contents: Foreword by Malachy McCourt; The Long Streets of Brooklyn; ...And So to Limerick; Nothing Left but the Dispensary; 'But If as Last our Colour Should Be Torn from Ireland's Heart'; The St. Vincent de Paul Society Wants to Know When She'll Stop Asking for Charity; 'We Might As Well Have a Pint Before We Go, Joe'; 'Coughs and Colds Are Prevalent'; It's A Long Way to the Dock Road; Limerick Landmarks; The Open Air; Out to the Country; How the Poor Lived; The Lanes; The Quays; In the Fever Hospital; 'Who's Comin' in the Carriage?'; Children in the Street; School Days; Life in the Nighborhood; The Emergency; Censors, Confraternities, and Movie-goers; You Have to Join the Confraternity; Leave This Library at Once; A Century of Emigration; New York in the 1940s-Frontier of the Land of Promise; I Can Go Home Again; Further Reading and Photo Credits.