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"As a university student, I once had a summer job selling plastic refuse sacks over the telephone. Rather worryingly, I was not too bad at it."
"I was born on 20 September, 1963, the anniversary of the day on which various pieces of Robert Emmet, the great 19th century Irish patriot, were separated from one another by British uniformed persons with the aid of an axe and scaffold. As a result of this haunting coincidence, my parents very nearly named me Emmet O'Connor. Quite a good name for a novelist, actually."
"I have always wanted to write a novel called The Old One-Two, but I haven't the faintest idea what it might be about."
"I'm afraid I have little time for hobbies, other than music, which I've mentioned above. My wife and I sometimes go to the opera. We're lucky enough to get to travel a lot, often because of work -- she's a screenwriter. As the father of a lively three-year old boy, I occasionally catch Barney or Clifford, the Big Red Dog. But secretly I prefer the ,I>Bear in the Big Blue House -- better stories and more moral ambiguity."
"Other ways of unwinding include regular and deafeningly loud doses of J. S. Bach, the great Muddy Waters, or George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers. As for literary dislikes, I do have one big one. Despite its newfound popularity, I must confess that I simply don't get the point of Tolkien's work, that sad little circus of hobbitry and Elvish. How profound must one's weariness of the real world have become to want to burrow into the recesses of Middle Earth like a disappointed mole. Some people I love swear that The Lord of the Rings is a masterpiece, but I am firmly on the side of C. S. Lewis, who is said to have sighed, on reading an early draft: ‘Oh, for God's sake, Tolkien. Not another elf story.'"
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Posted March 29, 2012
An amazingly well written story of American immigrants' plight. Beautiful!
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Posted April 21, 2012
This was a well written portrait of an immigrant family in America in the 19th century. Parts of the story were very moving. While I know it is meant to be a short story, I do feel the story was too rushed. I didn't need to read a novel of the family's whole life, but I do think there were parts that could have been better fleshed out. A nice free read.
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Posted May 9, 2012
Well written, meaningful short story about an immigrant family's life at the turn of the century.
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Posted April 18, 2012
Really brilliant
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Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.This is a heartbreaking story of immigrants in NYC, though I recommend it because the prose is so very lovely.
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Posted May 8, 2012
Short story that reminds us of the struggle of those who came before. Parts were very moving. The struggle to make a life in a new land. The couerage it took, the sacrifice.
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Posted May 3, 2012
Sad and dragged out and vaguely gets to the point in a rounf about way sort of
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Posted September 27, 2012
She runs away from more demons tired. "Iro! Come!" She shouts and her pet giant eel hound comes. "No demon or thing can run or swim faster than you hun," Holly says and hops onto the saddle and rides to deep woods result six.
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Posted September 22, 2012
How do u know i hav no powers?
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Posted September 22, 2012
If you hadany you would use them she hissed and grabbed herbow lining it over her shoulder and running to the sixth result.
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Posted July 15, 2012
But enjoyable anyway
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Overview
An original story from Joseph O’Connor, author of the #1 bestseller in Ireland, Ghost Light, a fictionalized account of the bittersweet love affair between the famously tortured playwright J.M Synge and Molly Allgood, a talented young actress from Dublin's inner city tenements.