Singing My Him Song - Softcover
"All of us are scarred, but some go to extremes in the quest for the happy childhood they never had."
Malachy McCourt -- actor, gadfly, and raconteur -- grew up amid death, squalor, and abuse in the lanes of Limerick, Ireland. 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. Now McCourt tells us the rest of his story: how he got from there to here, how he went from living the headlong and heedless life of a worldclass drunk to becoming a sober, loving father and grandfather, still happily married after thirty-five years. 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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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.
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"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
"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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- PublisherHarper
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0060197218
- ISBN 13 9780060197216
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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