Singing My Him Song - Softcover

Malachy McCourt

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ISBN 10: 0007116438 ISBN 13: 9780007116430

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks 2001, 2001

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"All of us are scarred, but some go to extremes in the quest for the happy childhood they never had."

Malachy McCourt -- actor, gadfly, raconteur, and author of the internationally bestselling memoir A Monk Swimming -- grew up amid death, squalor, poverty, and abuse in the lanes of Limerick, Irland. When he came to America as a young man, he brought a gargantuan appetite for what life had to offer -- and an equal drive to forget what it had delivered to him thus far.

Alternately amused and aghast, but always fascinated, millions of readers followed McCourt through his twenties as he caroused his way all over the world, becoming a familiar face in movies and television, in New York and Hollywood, and in bars from Paris to Calcutta.

In Singing My Him Song, McCourt tells us how he went from living the headlong and heedless life of a world-class drunk to becoming a sober, loving father and grandfather, still happily married after thirty-five years. We meet the woman who stood by his side all those years, watch as they build a family together, and listen as McCourt pursues a career of surprising successes and comic missteps.

But while becoming the host of television and radio talk shows, appearing in dozens of movies and plays, and establishing himself as a well-loved regular on Ryan's Hope and One Life to Live, McCourt must also face the wreckage of his past. McCourt fights for the rights of his handicapped stepdaughter, exposing a scandal that still reverberates; helps steer his children away from the path he took; and finally comes to terms with the people and places that sent him careering along his misguided course. Then, just when it's time for the happy ending, he must gather all that he's learned, and the support of everyone he loves, to face and overcome the threat of cancer.

Bawdy and funny, naked and moving, told in the same inimitable voice that left readers all over the world wondering what happened next, Malachy McCourt's Singing My Him Song tells as honest and entertaining a story as anyone could hope for.

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About the Author:

Malachy McCourt, sixty-nine, is the father of five children, and the grandfather of three. He lives with his wife, Diana, in New York City.

Review:

"Singing My Him Song makes it clear that no one understands the value of laughter better than Malachy McCourt." -- -- Irish American Magazine

"Singing My Him Song makes it clear that no one understands the value of laughter better than Malachy McCourt." -- -- Irish American Magazine

"A natural-born storyteller...There's much pleasure to be had in accompanying McCourt on his twisting journey to sobriety and peace." -- -- Washington Post

"A natural-born storyteller...There's much pleasure to be had in accompanying McCourt on his twisting journey to sobriety and peace." -- -- Washington Post

"It's all told with the frankness and honesty for which McCourt has been renowned." -- -- New York Daily News

"It's all told with the frankness and honesty for which McCourt has been renowned." -- -- New York Daily News

"McCourt has a wonderful sense of humor and peppers his work with comic, self-effacing moments." -- --Denver Rocky Mountain News

"McCourt has a wonderful sense of humor and peppers his work with comic, self-effacing moments." -- --Denver Rocky Mountain News

"McCourt is more thoughtful...and writes movingly about his family, and is open about how his alcoholism devastated them." -- -- The New York Times

"McCourt is more thoughtful...and writes movingly about his family, and is open about how his alcoholism devastated them." -- -- The New York Times

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