Are You Somebody: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman - Hardcover

O'Faolain, Nuala

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805056637 ISBN 13: 9780805056631

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co, 1998

Synopsis

Praised by the likes of Frank McCourt, Roddy Doyle, and Edna O'Brien, a powerful and intimate autobiography by an Irish woman of letters became a number-one best-seller in her native country. 20,000 first printing. Tour.

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Review:

Are You Somebody is an extraordinary, powerful memoir. It is beautifully written, with an honesty that is both sensitive and stark. --Roddy Doyle

A remarkable memoir, poignant, truthful, and imparting that quiet wisdom which suffering brings. --Edna O'Brien

An astonishing book ... a classic of Irish autobiography. --Colm Tóibín, TLS

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"...O'Faolain writes well, often beautifully, and her candor and honesty and ultimately her compassion, set this memoir well apart" --The Washington Post

"When you read Nuala O'Faolain's "Are You Somebody," you'll wish Ireland was giving out some kind of a Booker or Pulitzer prize. . . . You don't want the book to end." --Frank McCourt, author of "Angela's Ashes"

Are You Somebody is a moving and fascinating portrait of both Ireland and one of its most popular and respected commentators. This gem of honesty and insight had its first life as the introduction to a collection of Nuala O'Faolain's Irish Times columns that became a number-one bestseller in Ireland. It now stands alone. Ireland has fallen in love with this memoir of an Irish woman of letters, and now this country will too.

"Likely to become a classic of Irish autobiography." --Colm Tóibín, Times Literary Supplement

""Are You Somebody" is an extraordinary, powerful memoir. It is beautifully written, with an honesty that is both sensitive and stark." --Roddy Doyle

"A remarkable memoir, poignant, truthful, and imparting that quiet wisdom which suffering brings." --Edna O'Brien

Nuala O'Faolain has been a writer, a university professor, a television producer, and, most recently, a columnist for the Irish Times. She lives in Dublin.

About this edition

• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0805056637
• ISBN 13: 9780805056631
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 215