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Summary: Andrew wins the race!
Review: Andrew Sheehan has written a magnificent love story. He has learned, through painful experience and wry memory, that his parents were not perfect, but decided---as an act of will--to love them anyway. With heartbreaking clarity and astonishing delicacy, he recounts his life as a loner in a large, Irish Catholic family. His description of his descent into alcoholism is searingly honest and harrowingly unflinching in its detail. His struggle for recovery, floating and cresting like Gregorian harmony to his father's struggle to find meaning in his life as he faces death, is magnificent. The courage that it must have taken to write this book, as well as the talent that made it possible, are grand. If you grew up in a family, if you had a mother or a father, whether they were Irish or not, this is a must-read. Give it to everyone you know. I know I will be.
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Summary: Surprisingly well written and an excellent story
Review: I picked up this book inclined to not like it as another celebrity book, and a minor celebrity at that. I feared it would just be a son picking nits and blaming his father for the bad turn his life had taken. However, this book is an excellent story of a father-son relationship, personal redemption and the search for meaning in life. It is far easier to appreciate this book's excellence if you have no prior involvement with the father's work.
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Summary: Highly Recommended
Review: This book is even better than Pulitzer Prize winning books I have read and enjoyed. Being a reader of his father's books, Sheehan has written a compelling, inspiring and courageous book his father would be proud of. This book goes far beyond anything his father wrote. I spent the last 50 pages reading the book in tears. This book describes real life from the heart. It's recommended for anyone who has been a father, son, mother or daughter. Congratulations on a beautifully written book and I hope it gets the broad readership it so richly deserves.
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Summary: A Nice Surprise
Review: This is a wonderful story, marvelously written. I didn't expect much when I first picked it up - - another child of the famous capitalizing on their parent's fame - - but after a few pages I simply couldn't put it down. The book is captivating, and I hope we hear more from its talented author in the future. Thanks for sharing your story with us, Andrew!
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