Author

Publication

2002 - Viking, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

84,500 words, Guess

Page Count

338 pages

Identifiers

and 5 more
  • LibraryThing402397
  • Library of Congress Control Number2002032760
  • OCLC Control Number50695288
  • Better World Books9780670032044
  • Open LibraryOL3563751M

Classifications

  • DDC823/.914
  • LCCPR6054.O95 Z477 2002
  • LCCPR6054.O95Z477 2002

Alternate Titles

  • Rory and Ita

Description

"Rory and Ita, Roddy Doyle's first non-fiction book, tells - largely in their own words - the story of his parents' lives from their first memories to the present. Born in 1923 and 1925 respectively, they met at a New Year's Eve dance in 1947 and married in 1951. They remember every detail of their Dublin childhoods - the people (aunts, cousins, shopkeepers, friends, teachers), the politics (both came from Republican families), idyllic times in the Wexford countryside for Ita, Rory's apprenticeship as a printer. Ita's mother died when she was three ('the only memory I have is of her hands, doing things'); Rory was the oldest of nine children, five of them girls."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Genres

  • Biography

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