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100 1 $aO'Faolain, Nuala.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97021398
245 10 $aAre you somebody :$bthe accidental memoir of a Dublin woman /$cNuala O'Faolain.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHenry Holt & Co.,$c1998.
263 $a9803
300 $a215 pages ;$c24 cm
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500 $aOriginally published: Dublin : New Island Books, c1996.
500 $aIncludes columns originally published in the Irish times.
520 $aIrish times columnist Nuala O'Faolain opens her past and looks at it in this searingly honest midlife exploration of the love, pain, loneliness, loss, and self-discovery she has experienced. The result is a classic memoir. Born one of nine children in a penniless North Dublin family headed by an overwhelmed mother and a charming but absent father, Nuala not only survived but pushed at the boundaries of the confining Catholic Ireland she grew up in.
520 8 $aThe author spends much of her life seeking the sense of self that hostile environment denied to girls and women. But Nuala sees this past with new eyes when she takes the opportunity, in her fifties, to examine the meaning of her life and to review her accomplishments as well as her deep yearning for a sense of fulfillment.
520 8 $aGifted commentator that she is, Nuala shows us her private thoughts and public actions as they play against the backdrop of the rural Ireland she knew as a child, the blossoming intellectual scene of Dublin in the fifties, and the unspoiled Oxford of the sixties. We see the richness of her native land's culture and its natural beauty as she herself rediscovers them after years in England. With their help she makes her way back to health from a black period of alcoholism and debilitating depression.
520 8 $aNuala has distilled these experiences into a wisdom that could come only from a woman who refused to shrink from life. She escapes the example of her passionate but defeated mother and comes to her own terms with the love she yearns to share with men and women. Even the solitary life, she realizes, that includes neither lover nor child, has its deep contentments.
600 10 $aO'Faolain, Nuala.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97021398
650 0 $aWomen journalists$zIreland$vBiography.
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