<![CDATA[A Long Stone's Throw]]>

false <![CDATA[A Long Stone's Throw]]> 5995910 1 This memoir of the youngest McCourt begins between the borders of <ST1:COUNTRY-REGION w:st="on">Canada</ST1:COUNTRY-REGION> and the <ST1:COUNTRY-REGION w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on">United States</ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION>. Because of a technical hitch in immigration law, Alphie, in town to play a rugby match with his mates, finds himself shanghaied in no man's land. This was not the first, or the last, time Alphie will be on unsteady ground. Alphie McCourt was born in <U1:PLACE u2:st="on"><U1:CITY u2:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><ST1:CITY w:st="on">Limerick</U1:CITY></ST1:CITY>, <U1:COUNTRY-REGION u2:st="on"><ST1:COUNTRY-REGION w:st="on">Ireland</U1:COUNTRY-REGION></U1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION></ST1:PLACE>, where his father's departure left misery behind for the family. His loneliness only grew deeper and wider as each of his older brothers (Frank, Malachy and Michael) left for <U1:COUNTRY-REGION u2:st="on"><U1:PLACE u2:st="on"><ST1:COUNTRY-REGION w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on">America</U1:PLACE></U1:COUNTRY-REGION></ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION>; so in the year 1959, Alphie followed them. Alphie's adolescence in <ST1:STATE w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on">New York</ST1:PLACE></ST1:STATE> was marked by aimlessness, and too much drink. Briefly returning to <ST1:COUNTRY-REGION w:st="on">Ireland</ST1:COUNTRY-REGION> and study law, he returned to <ST1:COUNTRY-REGION w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on">America only</ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION> three years later, where this time he settled in <ST1:STATE w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on">California</ST1:PLACE></ST1:STATE>, discovering marijuana and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Returning to his immigrant roots in <ST1:CITY w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on">New York City</ST1:PLACE></ST1:CITY>, Alphie reencounters the beautiful Upper East Side Lynn,and marries her in 1975, in a raucous ceremony attended by both priest and rabbi. Success followed by hardship in business ventures color several of the following years. Then, one night, on Route 80 in <ST1:STATE w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on">New Jersey</ST1:PLACE></ST1:STATE>, drunk, full of despair and driving through the snow, Alphie has an epiphany. Today Alphie rises in the morning, at time when he used to go to bed. With a <ST1:CITY w:st="on">New York City</ST1:CITY> dawn still lingering, he monitors the <ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><ST1:PLACENAME w:st="on">Empire</ST1:PLACENAME><ST1:PLACETYPE w:st="on">State</ST1:PLACETYPE><ST1:PLACETYPE w:st="on">Building</ST1:PLACETYPE></ST1:PLACE>, in all its moods and colors, and knows he has finally landed on firm ground. He is home. 6170137 1 12 2008 A Long Stone's Throw total:4|3:3|2:1| 4 11 6 1 3 0 false false Fri Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 22:34:23 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 22:37:39 -0800 2009 1
First there was 'Angela's Ash's and other books by Frank McCourt. Then his brother Malachy with the book "And a Monk Swimming". Now the youngest of the McCourt brothers, Alphie has written a book.

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