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Chronicles the Irish journalist and novelist's tour across America to visit nine towns called Dublin, with stops at cities and landmarks along the way
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"One is reminded of vintage Bill Bryson...O'Connor is an engaging fellow, an affable kind of chap who could make a cross-continent Greyhound bus ride pass in a jiffy" (Scotsman)
"A fabulously droll, unsentimental, and craic-laden report on the haunts of the Gael taking in a wide range of political and historical references along its way. Many of the people the authors meets are so doggedly Irish they make him feel like an Englishman at a Sinn Fein rally, which gives the book a fascinating air of being a report from a doubly foreign land" (Glasgow Herald)
"He has written a book full of laughs and smiles, skillfully basted with well-brewed blarney" (New York Times)
"The laureate of the rising Irish generation, he combines that demotic wit of Roddy Doyle, the social concern of Dermot Bolger and the structural guile of Colm Toibin. A signficant writer of a very contemporary kind" (Irish Times)
"O'Connor holds up a mirror to the America that we see but don't often notice" (San Francisco Chronicle)
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"A fabulously droll, unsentimental, and craic-laden report on the haunts of the Gael taking in a wide range of political and historical references along its way. Many of the people the authors meets are so doggedly Irish they make him feel like an Englishman at a Sinn Fein rally, which gives the book a fascinating air of being a report from a doubly foreign land" (Glasgow Herald)
"He has written a book full of laughs and smiles, skillfully basted with well-brewed blarney" (New York Times)
"The laureate of the rising Irish generation, he combines that demotic wit of Roddy Doyle, the social concern of Dermot Bolger and the structural guile of Colm Toibin. A signficant writer of a very contemporary kind" (Irish Times)
"O'Connor holds up a mirror to the America that we see but don't often notice" (San Francisco Chronicle)
Extraordinary tour across the US from renowned Irish author
Subtitled Travels in Irish America, Sweet Liberty tells of an extraordinary tour across the United States, visiting the nine towns, in nine different states, called Dublin. Novelist Joseph O'Connor explores the connections between the most powerful country in the world and the tiny island nation from which 44 million Americans claim descendance.
Subtitled Travels in Irish America, Sweet Liberty tells of an extraordinary tour across the United States, visiting the nine towns, in nine different states, called Dublin. Novelist Joseph O'Connor explores the connections between the most powerful country in the world and the tiny island nation from which 44 million Americans claim descendance.
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- PublisherRoberts Rinehart Pub
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 1570981051
- ISBN 13 9781570981050
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages317
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