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Author: Nuala O'FaolainPublisher: Henry Holt & Co
Edition Description: ReprintISBN-10: 0805056637
Category: Biography & MemoirISBN-13: 9780805056631
 --Format: Hardcover
 --Publication Year: 1998
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A memoir by an Irish journalist who grew up in poverty, one of nine children, and escaped her background through a love of books. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998.

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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.
Irish times columnist Nuala O'Faolain opens her past and looks at it in this searingly honest midlife exploration of the love, pain, loneliness, loss, and self-discovery she has experienced. The result is a classic memoir. Born one of nine children in a penniless North Dublin family headed by an overwhelmed mother and a charming but absent father, Nuala not only survived but pushed at the boundaries of the confining Catholic Ireland she grew up in. The author spends much of her life seeking the sense of self that hostile environment denied to girls and women. But Nuala sees this past with new eyes when she takes the opportunity, in her fifties, to examine the meaning of her life and to review her accomplishments as well as her deep yearning for a sense of fulfillment. Gifted commentator that she is, Nuala shows us her private thoughts and public actions as they play against the backdrop of the rural Ireland she knew as a child, the blossoming intellectual scene of Dublin in the fifties, and the unspoiled Oxford of the sixties. We see the richness of her native land's culture and its natural beauty as she herself rediscovers them after years in England. With their help she makes her way back to health from a black period of alcoholism and debilitating depression. Nuala has distilled these experiences into a wisdom that could come only from a woman who refused to shrink from life. She escapes the example of her passionate but defeated mother and comes to her own terms with the love she yearns to share with men and women. Even the solitary life, she realizes, that includes neither lover nor child, has its deep contentments.

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"The most astonishing book to appear in Ireland this year....[O'Faolain's] book, which is written in a style of stark, merciless tension, tells the story of being raised in Dublin by an alcoholic mother and a charming, feckless father, and then deals with her own desperate search for truth, love, and knowledge in Ireland and England over the past few decades. There is a frankness in the book about the self and sex which is new in Ireland....Her book is likely to become a classic of Irish autobiography."
Times Literary Supplement - Colm Toibin (11/29/1996)

"The heartrending letters from readers, quoted in the afterword--a response to the book's intensely emotional reception in Ireland--attest to her ability to speak for the voiceless people in her 'little Irish world'."
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"[W]hat O'Faolain exemplifies is that rare and much underrated quality--a sense of proportion. As a result, while her story incorporates many of the familiar features of the 20th-century Irish narrative--booze, religious repression, sexual guilt--it avoids the affectations and subverts the sentimentalities that often afflict a certain sort of self-consciously 'Oirish' literature.....O'Faolain brings a spiky, independent intelligence that vanquishes cliché....[T]his book has to be read."
New York Times Book Review - Zoe Heller (03/15/1998)


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Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman

Nuala O'Faolain

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Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good
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ISBN: 0805056637
Publication Date: 1998-03-15
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 224
Height: 0.9000 inches
Width: 5.7000 inches
Weight: 0.8000 pounds

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