Can I read The Autobiography: An Only Child and My Father's Son on EtoBox?

The Autobiography: An Only Child and My Father's Son by Frank O'Connor is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Autobiography: An Only Child and My Father's Son about?

Frank O'Connor's acclaimed autobiography, now in one volume When Frank O'Connor was born, his parents—Minnie O'Connor, a former maid raised in an orphanage, and Michael O'Donovan, a veteran of the Boer War and the drummer in a local brass-and-reed band—lived above a sweet-and-tobacco shop in Cork, Ireland. The young family soon moved, however, to a two-room cottage at the top of Blarney Street, a lane that originates, as O'Connor so vividly describes it, "near the river-bank, in sordidness, and ascends the hill to something like squalor." From this unlikely beginning, a poor boy born Michael Francis Xavier O'Donovan set out on the remarkable journey that transformed him into Frank O'Connor, one of Ireland's greatest writers. An Only Child , the first installment of O'Connor's wonderfully evocative autobiography, captures the joy and pain of his early years: joy in the colorful people and places of Cork and in his devoted relationship with his mother, pain in the family's impoverished situation and in his father's melancholy moods and drunken outbursts. Fifteen years old when he joins the Irish Republican Army in the fight for independence, O'Connor finds himself on the losing side

Who reads The Autobiography: An Only Child and My Father's Son?

Author

Frank O'Connor

Publisher

Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781497655072

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, History, Biography