A MONK SWIMMING A Memoir by McCourt, Malachy - 1998

NY: Hyperion. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 0786863986; Binding is clean, sound and unworn. Author's signed inscription on the title page. Contents are almost as new, with no writing or other entries on the text. Very minor wear on the clean, complete DJ. ; Third Printing of the First Edition, cprt. 1998. AUTHOR'S SIGNED INSCRIPTION on the title page (To Tom thank you for breakfast. Blessings. Malachy McCourt) . .9-1/2" Tall. 290pp. White boards, Black cloth spine, HARDCOVER. Bright blue/silver metallic spine lettering. AUTOBIOGRAPH Y. Savagely funny, intoxicatingly sad, and wonderfully written, McCourt's memoir is a source of endless entertainment. The Irish-American story. "In 1952, travelling steerage, Malachy McCourt left a childhood of poverty in Limerick, Ireland, ifor the promise of America. This is the story of what he brought with him, and what he thought he left behind, the memories of a drunken, vanished faher and the humiliations of Angela. His mother. " ; 9-1/2" Tall; 289 pages .