A Monk Swimming av Malachy McCourt

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<p>BACK IN PRINT!</p><p>¿A rollicking good read that, as the Irish say, would make a dead man laugh.¿ ¿Philadelphia Inquirer</p><p>Malachy McCourt was already famous as an actor, saloon-keeper, and late-night television personality when Angela''s Ashes was published. Brother Frank''s book introduced the incorrigible, indomitable young Malachy to a worldwide audience that was charmed, and clamored for more.</p><p>Frank''s book was a hard act to follow, but Malachy''s delightful memoir, which picked up where Angela''s Ashes left off, won critical acclaim and commercial success.</p><p>Born in Brooklyn, and raised in the lanes of Limerick, Malachy returned to New York in 1952, at age 20. After stints in the Air Force and as a longshoreman, he parlayed his gifts of gab and conviviality into an ownership position at Malachy''s¿the first singles'' bar¿located around the corner from the Barbizon Hotel for young women, whose glamorous residents frequently repaired to Malachy''s for a tipple and