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Title: The Chisellers by Brendan O'Carroll ISBN: 0-452-28122-9 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: 28 February, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.22 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Very Touching Book
Comment: While "Mammy" was a laugh out loud book, the "Chisellers", while not lacking humor, was a compelling, touching tears-in-the-eyes book. Can hardly wait to read "The Granny". I hope Mr. O'Carroll continues his writing.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Fabulous Read
Comment: After reading The Mammy, I could not wait to read the Chisellers. I was not disappointed in the least, I couldnt put this book down at all! Its already been passed on to my sister, a very addictive read. Brendan O'Carroll makes all the characters come to life so that you feel as if you know each of them personally and that I had been transported to 1960's Dublin. I cannot wait to get a copy of the Granny!
Rating: 2
Summary: Don't be fooled by the cute photo on the cover!
Comment: This book was advertised in some of the American Irish Papers and the photo looked very cute, and frankly, I could have been one of the kids on the cover, so I picked it up. The novel is PURE pulp set with some cute characters, but this author 'jazzez' up the storyline and makes it 'modern' in a way that is subtle to the modern mind but a fraud and a trick on the reader.
This book follows teen and late teen working class (comparitively) large family living in a Dublin apartment. In the tradition of a trite modern movie, good things happen to this 'single mother' 'Agnes' who never had an 'organism' with her late husband because he was like ice upon her back. You gotta throw in the single-mom and sexually underutilized 1970's housewife to sell a novel these days you know. She however, finds fulfillment in a French transplanted pizza maker.
This all the while her oldest son, who works for an Austrian Jewish holocau$t refugee and survivor (gotta throw the holocau$t reference in there to make a modern novel you know) and saves the survivors old fashioned handcrafted furniture factory when the English clients want cheap disposable furniture, by making . . . cheap disposable furniture. Along the way, he finds a girlfriend and gets married.
The second older son becomes a hairdresser and a homosexual, but Agnes, being the stupid woman, never cathces on even when her gay son dances with his randy boyfriend at the other son's wedding. But the son actually married says the modernist 'Whatever makes you happy?'
But the third older son is a skinhead punk (gotta throw the nazi rascism reference in there to sell a modern novel ya' know) He steals money from Agnes, gambles, and helps beat her gay son almost to death with his other skinhead punk friends. We all know that there were *so many* skinheads and beatings in Dublin circa 1973. That is why the whole country, below the 6 counties, had 2 murders a year.
The other kid is a shoplifter, the other daughter races a go-kart, all summing up into a completely false and unbelievable tale wrapped in quaint language with some true references to way people act, and still act in some quarters. I think this book's cover is its only high point. I have cut the cover off, by the way. Buy this book with the hopes of scoring a picture, do not expect writing in the style of the McCourts, or as accurately truthful as 'Its a long way from Penny Apples'
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Title: The Young Wan: An Agnes Browne Novel by Brendan O'Carroll ISBN: 0670031143 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 10 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Agnes Browne by Brendan O'Carroll ISBN: 0452281695 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: 07 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: A Dublin Girl: Growing Up in the 1930s by Elaine Crowley ISBN: 1569471371 Publisher: Soho Press, Inc. Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Tea and Green Ribbons: A Memoir by Evelyn Doyle ISBN: B0000AACV8 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Whoredom In Kimmage : THE PRIVATE LIVES OF IRISH WOMEN by Rosemary Mahoney ISBN: 0385474504 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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