You don\'t want the book to end; it glows with compassion and you want more, more because you know this is a fine wine of a life, richer as it ages.--Frank McCourt, author of Angela\'s Ashes One of nine children born into a penniless North Dublin family, Nuala O\'Faolain was saved from a harrowing childhood by her love of books and reading.
Strikingly vivid and starkly emotional, Are You Somebody? is, like O\'Faolain herself, a singular example of courage, honesty, and bold living..
This commemorative edition of her landmark Memoir celebrates O\'Faolain\'s remarkable life and work with a new foreword from Frank McCourt as well as additional archival materials.
Are You Somebody? distills her experiences into a wisdom that can only come from an obstinate refusal to shrink from life.
Though she ultimately became one of Ireland\'s best-known columnists, her professional success did little to ease her loneliness and longing for a deep connection to the world.
You don\'t want the book to end; it glows with compassion and you want more, more because you know this is a fine wine of a life, richer as it ages.--Frank McCourt, author of Angela\'s Ashes One of nine children born into a penniless North Dublin family, Nuala O\'Faolain was saved from a harrowing childhood by her love of books and reading
