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O'Carroll, Brendan, 1955-
Subjects
Fatherless families -- Fiction.
Working class -- Ireland -- Fiction.
Widows -- Fiction.
Dublin (Ireland) -- Fiction.
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O'Carroll, Brendan, 1955-
Fatherless families -- Fiction.
Working class -- Ireland -- Fiction.
Widows -- Fiction.
Dublin (Ireland) -- Fiction.
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Agnes
Browne
/ Brendan O'Carroll.
by
O'Carroll, Brendan, 1955-
Penguin Putnam, 1999, c1994.
Call #:
FICTION OCA
Subjects
Fatherless families -- Fiction.
Working class -- Ireland -- Fiction.
Widows -- Fiction.
Dublin (Ireland) -- Fiction.
Series
O'Carroll, Brendan, 1955- Mrs.
Browne
trilogy ; bk. 1.
ISBN:
9780452281691 (movie tie-in softcover with title "
Agnes
Browne
")
9780452281035 (softcover with title "The Mammy")
Alternate title:
The mammy.
Description:
174 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
[Also published under the title: "The Mammy"].
Summary:
"Mammy" is what Irish children call their mothers and The Mammy is
Agnes
Browne--a widow struggling to raise seven children in a North Dublin neighborhood in the 1960s. Brendan O'Carroll chronicles the comic misadventures of this large and lively family with raw humor and great affection. Forced to be mother, father, and referee to her battling clan, the ever-resourceful
Agnes
Browne
occasionally finds a spare moment to trade gossip and quips with her best pal Marion Monks (alias "The Kaiser") and even finds herself pursued by the amorous Frenchman who runs the local pizza parlor.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Domestic fiction.
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Tantallon Public Library
Adult Fiction
FICTION OCA
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