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Are You Somebody?: the Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman

Author: Nuala O'faolain
Publisher: Holt (Henry) & Co ,U.S.
Category: Book

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Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars

22 reviews
Sales Rank: 165279

Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st Owl Books Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 215
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.6

ISBN: 0805056645
Dewey Decimal Number: 070.92
EAN: 9780805056648
ASIN: 0805056645

Publication Date: January 31, 1999
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Customer Reviews: Read 17 more reviews...

2 out of 5 stars

Some advice, Nuala - Get some Prozac! September 2, 1999
2 out of 4 found this review helpful

This memoir was deeply unsatisfying. While I like the way she writes and crafts words, I found her to be uninspiring and pretentious, to say the least.

1 out of 5 stars

Never quite got to the point in revealing what's her message September 2, 1999
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

Very hard reading and trying to relate to all the many men in her life, There were so many and only brief information on them all. Also, she never seems to share any in-depth feelings about herself and what she learned or discoverd through her journeys. Her book reads like a long boring recital.

1 out of 5 stars

McCort did in better in Angela's Ashes July 12, 1999
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

I wanted to like this book but found it depressing and uninsightful. Angela's Ashes is the best of this genre. Her newspaper columns must be better. I had to force myself to finish it.

1 out of 5 stars

A thoroughly depressing, pretentious book. July 7, 1999
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

Given the cover recommendation by Frank McCourt, I was prepared to enjoy this autobiography. Yet, several pages into it I put it down and wasn't sure if I could start it again. I was determined to get through the book and finally managed to read it from cover to cover. Why, I don't know. Nuala O'Faolain is pretentious, obtuse and depressing. Pretentious in the continual references to her "famous" friends and lovers, obtuse in her literary references (many in Irish which she doesn't bother to at least paraphrase so those of us not fluent in this language can at least make an attempt to understand what point she is trying to make) and depressing in leading us through her love life, much of it conducted in an alcoholic stupor. Angela's Ashes illustrated an impoverished Irish childhood with clarity and a degree of humor. Nuala O'Faolain's impoverished Irish early adulthood made me want to through her bok through the window.

5 out of 5 stars

An honest and deeply moving memoir June 18, 1999
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

My sister lent me this book and I found it a wonderful read. I did not want the book to end. Her search for love and her looking at that search in such honest ways has made me feel that solitude is a common human experience even though we may not talk from it all that much. I am so grateful to Ms. O'Faolain for writing from her heart and sharing it with so many.