My Life In Pieces—Writers, Rogues, The Road and The Rock

My Life In Pieces—Writers, Rogues, The Road and The Rock
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Publisher : Brick Tower Press
Total Pages : 478
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ISBN-10 : 9781899694051
ISBN-13 : 1899694056
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Download or read book My Life In Pieces—Writers, Rogues, The Road and The Rock written by Ambrose Clancy and published by Brick Tower Press. This book was released on 2024-12-30 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the foreword to this collection, Robert Lipsyte writes that Ambrose Clancy “can uncoil a sentence like a silken rope, snap it like a whip, tie up a complicated thought. He can write long, he can write short, he can build a case, he can murmur a spooky tale …” In a career spanning four decades, Clancy’s feature writing for major publications—including GQ, The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times—has profiled legendary writers, politicians (and other rogues); brought sharp-eyed views of Ireland, Venice, London, Amsterdam, Frank McCourt’s Limerick, the New York of Harlem, Queens and the Lower East Side; spent time with a Belfast prize fighter during The Troubles; and hiked a remote peninsula in Greece to stay in mountain monasteries. Clancy covers everything from Monster Truck rallies to a Long Island “Drunk Train,” and takes us to a small island community, examining its history of slavery, small town gossips, an unsolved homicide, and people who have enchanted him along the way. The New York Times, reviewing an earlier work by Clancy, noted his “series of gripping and vividly narrated events …” This is a collection with a forceful narrative drive. One to dip in and out of to gain cultural insights from the last 40 years by an accomplished pro, one who knows the duty of a writer is to inform, illuminate, and just as importantly, to entertain.


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