**Frank O'Connor's acclaimed autobiography, now in one volume** When Frank O'Connor was born, his parents--Minnie O'Connor, a former maid raised in an orphanage, and Michael O'Donovan, a veteran of the Boer War and the drummer in a local brass-and-reed band--lived above a sweet-and-tobacco shop in
An Only Child AND My Father's Son
โ Scribed by O'Connor, Frank
- Book ID
- 109194062
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 263 KB
- Series
- Autobiography of Frank O'Connor 1-2
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780141911328
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โฆ Synopsis
The first two volumes of O'Connor's autobiography. AN ONLY CHILD is the entrancing story of an Irish childhood and a youthful involvement in the Irish rebellion which leads to internment. In MY FATHER'S SON O'Connor is released after the Civil war to begin a turbulent career as a writer, sharing his life and loves in Dublin with characters as formidable as Yeats and Lennox Robinson.
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