Almost There Suddenly, in midlife, there was the possibility of radical change. She offered to write an introduction to explain the life experience that had shaped this Irish woman's views. Almost There begins at that moment when O'Faolain's
| TITLE | : | Almost There |
| AUTHOR | : | |
| RATING | : | 4.96 (245 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 1843956268 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Hardcover |
| PAGES | : | 272 Pages |
| PUBLISH | : | 0000-00-00 |
| GENRE | : |
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 a Dublin woman," was discovered, and Are You Somebody? became an international bestseller. It launched a new life for its author at a time when she had long let go of expectations that anything new could dislodge patterns of regret and solitude, well fixed. Suddenly, in midlife, there was the possibility of radical change. Almost There begins at that moment when O'Faolain's life began to change. It tells the story of a life
EDITORIAL :
From Publishers Weekly A memoir may be a summing-up of a long, interesting life, or it can be a sort of self-examination so addictive the writer joins the ranks of the "serial memoirists." O'Faolain's a repeat offender, effectively rechewing material incompletely digested in her previous memoir, Are You Somebody? She opens by listing what she doesn't have, as she enters her mid-50s-someone to love, someone to love her, money, a workplace, a pension-but it's clear love is her biggest problem: "How have I ended up with nobody?" Her early boyfriends were apparently unremarkable, her 15-year relationship with "Nell" ended awfully and her subsequent affair with an elderly married man was mostly imagined. Toward the book's end, she's almost ditching her relationship with a divorced father, resenting his intimacy with his daughter. Her anger at her dysfunctional parents seethes throughout, culm
REVIEW :
The Author of the works comprised in this selection is one of the greatest number theorists ever. Wanted to get back on track after having surgery eight years ago. First, for me, the joy of alternate history is an author's vision of how the world is changed by different choices or events. It has dozens of little quizzes, where you see the lines from songs on one page, and then when you flip to the next page you find out the names of the groups that sang them. I liked it!!. It is written smoothly, however, and isn't like a catalogue. Making your place of employment a great place to work and that treats people right, and even more so, being an ethical place. Like Elvis C., she wants to bite that hand so badly. If you are looking for a book full of stock photo's of people with dreadlocks, this book is not for you. After Files's story was told in 2004 or 2005, investigators went back to look
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