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The Young Wan

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The Young Wan

by O'Carroll, Brendan

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ISBN 10
0670031143
ISBN 13
9780670031146
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New York: Viking, 2003. O'Carroll's fourth novel, an "Agnes Browne" comic novel of Dublin. Fine copy of the First Edition. Light green paper-covered boards with a darker green spine and gilt lettering. Fine, with a Fine, unclipped dustjacket; in an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First American Edition.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Synopsis

Before she was a Mammy , before she had Chisellers , and before they made her a Granny , Agnes Browne was Agnes Reddin, a young girl-or a Young Wan- growing up in the Jarro in Dublin.  Brendan O'Carroll takes readers back to the heart of working-class Dublin, this time in the 1940s.  Together with her soon to be lifelong best friend Marion Delany, young Agnes manages to survive the indignities and demands of Catholic school, the unwanted births of siblings, days spent in the factories and markets, and nights in the dance hall as rock-and-roll invades Dublin. But on the eve of her wedding night, the Jarro is alive with gossip—will Agnes be turned away at the altar?  For the whole parish knows Agnes's not-so-well-kept secret.  And with a mother falling further into dementia, and a younger sister turning to a life of crime, it's up to Agnes alone to keep her splintering family together, while trying to create one of her own.  Filled with O'Carroll's trademark wicked wit and loving, larger-than-life characters, The Young Wan shows the hardscrabble beginnings of the ultimate Irish mother and family.

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Bookseller
Quercus Rare Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
000477
Title
The Young Wan
Author
O'Carroll, Brendan
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Fine
Edition
First American Edition.
ISBN 10
0670031143
ISBN 13
9780670031146
Publisher
Viking
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2003
Bookseller catalogs
Modern Literature (Irish Authors);

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