Heaps of Trouble - Softcover

Heaps, Emelyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848890419 ISBN 13: 9781848890411

Verlag: The Collins Press, 2010

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'Packed with heaps of hope' Clare Champion

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Set against the lively backdrop of Everybody's toyshop in Inchicore in Dublin, one word sums it up: trouble. But this vivid depiction of boyhood in the 1950s and 1960s, his parents mostly at loggerheads, especially his alcoholic father, as they bounced from sobriety to drunkenness, is never bitter. Emelyn does not 'look back in anger'. Early schooldays at infamous Goldenbridge Convent, injured at age ten in an explosion, which kills his beloved only sister, and going to court in search of 'Compo', are in turn distressing, sad and hilarious. Grief has its consolation when compo is in the offing. Description of this tragedy turning the family upside down is unflinching while mischief as a streetwise gurrier during his years at CUS School is wonderfully madcap. From the start to the heart-stopping finish after a summer working in St James Hospital, we are drawn into his triumphs and disasters with hilarity and sadness never far away. And then there is a love story.

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• Verlag: The Collins Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1848890419
• ISBN 13: 9781848890411
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256