Dublin Girl: Growing Up in the 1930s

by Elaine Crowley

Book Overview

Documents the author's childhood detailing her mother's desperate wish for a house of their own, her father's unfaithfulness and promiscuity, her mother's attempt to end the affair and the beating... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569471371
• ISBN13: 9781569471371
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Soho Press
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Great Night Table Reading...

Elaine Crowley weaved a wonderful story that did combine humor and pathos in a way that left the reader hopeful...to the very end. I imagine Ms. Crowley as being an extremely grounded and delightful person, in spite of the "hard times" she endured during her childhood years. And isn't that always the "best" gift we can give to ourselves/offer to others? Rather than staying stuck in her own bitterness, anger, resentment and/or rage---it's nice to see an author "get into it" (when "it" isn't very pleasant at all!), but come through it victoriously. She's someone I would have liked to know personally; her family is no doubt extremely fortunate to have her. Mary in Northville, MI