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The Granny [Paperback] O'Carroll, Brendan Paperback - 1996
by O'Carroll, Brendan
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- Title The Granny [Paperback] O'Carroll, Brendan
- Author O'Carroll, Brendan
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher O'Brien Press, Dublin
- Date 1996-10-07
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0188193
- ISBN 9780862784898 / 0862784891
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97103601
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Summary
The New York Times Book Review praised Brendan O'Carroll's first novel, The Mammy, as "Cheerful...as unpretentious and satisfying as a home-cooked meal...with a delicious dessert of an ending." With the forthcoming second book in the trilogy, The Chisellers, and a movie about The Mammy (entitled Agnes Browne) on the horizon, the world is discovering O'Carroll's uniquely Irish blend of warmth and grittiness, comedy and pathos, as he elevates the lives of ordinary working-class Dublin people--and one extraordinary family--into tales that are small in size but epic in emotion. With the final installment, The Granny, our comedic and lovable heroine, Agnes Browne, has a French lover, six children in their twenties--including one in prison--and a wee grandchild of her own. But the world is spinning fast for Agnes--especially considering that her lover wants her to become "a sexual animal" and that her family's far-flung fortune is beyond her control. The members of the Browne family...