A Long Stone's Throw

A Long Stone's Throw
by Alphie McCourt

A Long Stone's Throw
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Author: Alphie McCourt
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-11-04
ISBN: 0981453554
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Sterling & Ross Publishers

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Book Review: Not Just Another McCourt
Summary: 5 Stars

You may think that if you've read the memoirs of the two older McCourt brothers, Frank and Malachy, you've heard all that the McCourt family has to say. You'd be wrong. Alphie has a unique story to tell and he tells it in his own distinct voice. His experiences as a young immigrant are widely varied and he recounts them with a wry self-deprecation that charms. Some of the episodes are horrific, some sweet, some bitter, all are moving. There are moments of laugh-out-loud comedy, most often endearingly at the author's expense. His observations of the various strata of American life he encounters in his innocence are witty and insightful, and he delivers his occasional philosophical ruminations with a fine literary style. This book is different from his brothers', but every bit as worthy.

Summary of A Long Stone's Throw

The McCourt family gained fame through the books of brothers Frank and Malachy and in the two popular documentaries that profiled them. In A Long Stone?s Throw, the youngest McCourt, Alphie, adds his gifted voice to this literary chorus with a vivid, emotional memoir that starts in his native Limerick. Alone and dispirited after his brothers leave for America, Alphie flees Ireland as soon as he?s able. He spends the remainder of his adolescence in New York, aimless and half drunk. A return to Ireland to study law is a dismal failure. Back in America, things aren?t much better until he reconnects with, and eventually marries, the beautiful Lynn. Still, things are rough: their daughter Allison is born with difficulties, business success alternates with business failures, he continues to drink. Finally, after an epiphany on Route 80, McCourt learns to navigate, clear-eyed, the happy chaos of New York City, and of life itself.

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