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A Long Stone’s Throw

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The McCourt circle of relatives gained fame through the books of brothers Frank and Malachy and in the two popular documentaries that profiled them. In A Long Stone’s Throw, the youngest McCourt, Alphie, adds his gifted voice to this literary chorus with a vivid, emotional memoir that starts in his native Limerick. On my own and dispirited after his brothers leave for The usa, Alphie flees Ireland as soon as he is ready. He spends the rest of his adolescence in New York, aimless and half under the influence of alcohol. A return to Ireland to study law is a dismal failure. Back in The usa, things aren t significantly better until he reconnects with, and ultimately marries, the beautiful Lynn. Still, things are rough: their daughter Allison is born with difficulties, business success alternates with business failures, he continues to drink. After all, after an epiphany on Route 80, McCourt learns to navigate, clear-eyed, the happy chaos of New York City, and of life itself.

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