A son gives a father back his memory, one funny, painful, poignant moment at a time
Autorentext
Sean Nolan was born in New Jersey, grew up on Ocean County?'?s Route ?35 ?and moved to ?New York City?. ? He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and New York ?University's Stern School of Business and now lives in Dublin, Ireland?. ?Sean has not driven ?a car in eight years?.
Klappentext
A son gives a father back his memory, one funny, painful, poignant moment at a time
Zusammenfassung
On a Saturday morning, Mike Nolan, a hard-driving, hard-living lawyer in his early fifties, was hit by a truck during a 40-mile bike ride on New Jersey's Route 35 and given up for dead. Instead, after months of recovery, Mike looked the same as he always had. The only difference? He had absolutely no memory. Guys Like Us, like a reverse memoir, is the attempt by his son, Sean, to tell Mike who he is through recollections of rare moments together and tales of the Nolan family on the Jersey shore. The Nolans, a clan planted in Ocean County by Mike's father, Joe, are people who suffer no fools and take no prisoners; you had better wear thick skin when they are around. Three strong characters?Joe, Mike and Sean?dominate Guys Like Us. Add an enormous Cadillac that Joe and Sean bomb around in, Sean behind the wheel at the ripe age of eight. Stir in the boardwalks and beaches of the Jersey shore and near-lethal family feuds, and the pot boils. Sean Nolan does not fall far from the tree. It doesn't take long for Sean to realize he has to tell Mike, among many other things, how impossible he could be. And that dark secrets, long held in a young boy's heart, are out of reach to him forever. Giving his father back his memory, one funny, painful moment at a time, Nolan paints a poignant, often hilarious, portrait of their shared past.
Titel
Guys Like Us
Untertitel
A Memoir of Life Lost and Found
Autor
EAN
9781936846153
ISBN
978-1-936846-15-3
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
05.08.2011
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
2.66 MB
Anzahl Seiten
288
Jahr
2011
Untertitel
Englisch
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