Nuala O'Faolain
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"You don't want the book to end; it glows with compassion and you want more, more because you know this is a fine wine of a life, richer as it ages."—Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes
One of nine children born into a penniless North Dublin family, Nuala O'Faolain was saved from a harrowing childhood by her love of books and reading. Though she ultimately became one of Ireland's best-known columnists, her professional success
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The final novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Are You Somebody? Like many a modern, well-travelled woman, Rosie has lived a fascinating life, full of adventure and the pleasure of many lovers in her younger years. Now, facing the challenges of middle-age, she finds that the things that defined her most (work, love, independence) begin to fail her. She comes home to Ireland to care for her elderly aunt Min, trapped by circumstances...
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Esta es una historia maravillosa llena de mujeres con sofocos. En primer lugar está Rose Barry, una irlandesa de armas tomar de cincuenta y muchos. Rosie está escribiendo Diez Pensamientos para la mitad del viaje, un cuadernito de autoayuda para mujeres estadounidenses de mediana edad. Luego está su arisca pero adorable tía Min, que a sus años está a punto de vivir una aventura al más puro estilo Huckleberry Finn. O Reeny, fiel escudera de...
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In 1996, a small Irish press approached Nuala O'Faolain to publish a collection of her opinion columns from the Irish Times. She offered to write an introduction to explain the life experience that had shaped this Irish woman's views. Convinced that none but a few diehard fans of the columns would ever see the book, she took the opportunity to interrogate herself as to what she had made of her life. But the introduction, the "accidental memoir of...
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Award-winning memoirist and best-selling author Nuala O'Faolain branches into new territory with her biography of the infamous Irish-American prostitute and thief, Chicago May. O'Faolain uses May's autobiography, primary sources from the turn of the 19th century and her own experience as an Irishwoman to bring May-and all her heartache, deception and violence-to life.