A Long Stone's Throw
Autor Alphie McCourten Limba Engleză CD-Audio – 30 noi 2008
Alphie McCourt was born in Limerick, Ireland, where his father's departure left misery behind for the family. His loneliness only grew deeper and wider as each of his older brothers (Frank, Malachy and Michael) left for America; so in the year 1959, Alphie followed them.
Alphie's adolescence in New York was marked by aimlessness, and too much drink. Briefly returning to Ireland and study law, he returned to America only three years later, where this time he settled in California, discovering marijuana and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Returning to his immigrant roots in New York City, Alphie reencounters the beautiful Upper East Side Lynn,and marries her in 1975, in a raucous ceremony attended by both priest and rabbi. Success followed by hardship in business ventures color several of the following years. Then, one night, on Route 80 in New Jersey, drunk, full of despair and driving through the snow, Alphie has an epiphany.
Today Alphie rises in the morning, at time when he used to go to bed. With a New York City dawn still lingering, he monitors the Empire State Building, in all its moods and colors, and knows he has finally landed on firm ground. He is home.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781600245022
ISBN-10: 1600245021
Pagini: 1
Dimensiuni: 133 x 146 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:Completă
Editura: HACHETTE AUDIO
Colecția Hachette Original
ISBN-10: 1600245021
Pagini: 1
Dimensiuni: 133 x 146 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:Completă
Editura: HACHETTE AUDIO
Colecția Hachette Original
Notă biografică
The youngest of the McCourt brothers, after Frank, Malachy and Michael, Alphie McCourt grew up in Limerick, Ireland and immigrated to the U.S. in 1959. He has lived in Canada, Dublin, Ireland, and in California and has spent a good part of his life in the restaurant and bar business. His pieces have appeared in The Washington Post, The Villager (New York), The Limerick Leader and in Icons Magazine.