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A whimsical, warm-hearted "autobiography of a twelve-year-old boy in Upstate New York in 1959. The oldest of four children in a prototypical Irish Catholic family, Pierce O'Donnell recounts growing up in a village with more cows than residents with his WWII-hero father, who owns the only liquor store; his intellectual mother, the librarian; his spinster aunt, the local postmaster; his three younger sisters; and a ghost named Nora. Last Pick adroitly conjures up a bygone era in which this young boy's biggest concerns were making the Little League Team (he never did), not freezing to death delivering a newspaper, making Eagle Scout, and learning Latin as a reluctant altar boy allergic to incense. This self-deprecating story of a determined, well-meaning underdog will delight O'Donnell's fellow Baby Boomers and enchant younger generations for years to come with its witty and timeless humor.
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Last Pick, Pierce O\'Donnell
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2023
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- Titel
- Last Pick
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Pierce O\'Donnell
- Verlag
- Rare Bird Books
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2023
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 224
- ISBN10
- 164428295X
- ISBN13
- 9781644282953
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Wahre Geschichten, Biografien, Autobiografien & Memoiren
- Beschreibung
- A whimsical, warm-hearted "autobiography of a twelve-year-old boy in Upstate New York in 1959. The oldest of four children in a prototypical Irish Catholic family, Pierce O'Donnell recounts growing up in a village with more cows than residents with his WWII-hero father, who owns the only liquor store; his intellectual mother, the librarian; his spinster aunt, the local postmaster; his three younger sisters; and a ghost named Nora. Last Pick adroitly conjures up a bygone era in which this young boy's biggest concerns were making the Little League Team (he never did), not freezing to death delivering a newspaper, making Eagle Scout, and learning Latin as a reluctant altar boy allergic to incense. This self-deprecating story of a determined, well-meaning underdog will delight O'Donnell's fellow Baby Boomers and enchant younger generations for years to come with its witty and timeless humor.