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Are You Somebody?
Are You Somebody
Author: Nuala O'Faolain
"Are You Somebody" is a moving and fascinating portrait of both Ireland and one of its most popular and respected commentators. This gem of honesty and insight had its first life as the introduction to a collection of Nuala O'Faolain's "Irish Times" columns that became a bestseller in Ireland. Ireland has fallen in love with this memoir of an Ir...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780765539113
ISBN-10: 076553911X
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Publisher: Warner Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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This could have been called Sex and the Irish Girl. It starts with her hormones in the teenaged years and ends plaintively wishing she was not too old to attract men any more. The rest covers the despressing effects of being raised by an absentee father and alcoholic mother. The author does a LOT of name-dropping, but since I didn't know any of the names, some of the paragrahs simply read as lists of people. Uninteresting and uninspiring.
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miss-info avatar reviewed Are You Somebody? on + 386 more book reviews
This could have been called Sex and the Irish Girl. It starts with her hormones in the teenaged years and ends plaintively wishing she was not too old to attract men any more. The rest covers the despressing effects of being raised by an absentee father and alcoholic mother. The author does a LOT of name-dropping, but since I didn't know any of the names, some of the paragrahs simply read as lists of people. Uninteresting and uninspiring.
miss-info avatar reviewed Are You Somebody? on + 386 more book reviews
This could have been called Sex and the Irish Girl. It starts with her hormones in the teenaged years and ends plaintively wishing she was not too old to attract men any more. The rest covers the despressing effects of being raised by an absentee father and alcoholic mother. The author does a LOT of name-dropping, but since I didn't know any of the names, some of the paragrahs simply read as lists of people. Uninteresting and uninspiring.


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