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An entertaining memoir of a rollicking life in New York of an Irish immigrant.



Trade Review

‘One of the funniest books I’ve ever read. Everyone should rush to buy it’
Irish News

‘A drunken exhilarating version of the American dream’
The Observer

‘One grows to like Mr McCourt for his honesty, sympathise with him for his struggle… and laugh and sweat with him when the authorities seem to be closing in… a funny, oddly winning book’
New York Times

A Monk Swimming

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    A Paperback by Malachy McCourt

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      Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
      Publication Date: 8/2/1999 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780006531159, 978-0006531159
      ISBN10: 0006531156

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      An entertaining memoir of a rollicking life in New York of an Irish immigrant.



      Trade Review

      ‘One of the funniest books I’ve ever read. Everyone should rush to buy it’
      Irish News

      ‘A drunken exhilarating version of the American dream’
      The Observer

      ‘One grows to like Mr McCourt for his honesty, sympathise with him for his struggle… and laugh and sweat with him when the authorities seem to be closing in… a funny, oddly winning book’
      New York Times

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