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Title: The Young Wan: An Agnes Browne Novel by Brendan O'Carroll ISBN: 0-670-03114-3 Publisher: Viking Books Pub. Date: 10 February, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.88 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Agnes and her family will win your heart
Comment: This reads like a long short story. The language in parts surprised me at first but then it became just part of the story. In this novel, the reader meets Agnes' parents...how they met, how they married, how they fell in love. They have two children: Agnes and Dolly. Tragedy strikes and more hardships arise. Agnes has to grow up quicker than her age as she is faced with tough life situations.
Likeable characters and certainly does make the reader interested in the other books in this series.
Rating: 5
Summary: Glad I didn't pass on this one
Comment: After reading the Agnes Browne trilogy I wasn't too enthusiastic about reading this novel when I found out it was a prequel. Once I know how a story ends I usually don't care to go back in time to before it ever started. But this novel is definitely an exception. In fact, I think it is the best novel Brendan O'Carroll has written! He goes back in time and introduces the reader to Agnes' grandparents and parents, he explains how Agnes and Marion become best friends, and how she arrives at her job in the market place just to name a few of the storylines. All of these are wonderful, some very poignant ( her relationship with Nellie and dealing with her mother's dementia and her sister's delinquency) but others very funny, especially the scenes with Marion. Oh, if we all had a zany, irreverent friend like Marion! The scene where she and Agnes make their First Confession is one of the funniest things I have ever read. All in all, just a terrific novel. I hope Mr. O'Carroll is working on another one.
Rating: 5
Summary: Och, tis a wonder
Comment: This 4th book of O'Carroll's actually is backstory for his remarkable trilogy that chronicles the life, loves, and family of the inimitable and incredible Agnes Brown. It traces dear Agnes?s own childhood and gives us insight into her mother and grandparents. With its inclusion, avid readers now have the whole picture. Just as full of rollicking hilarity and side-splitting laughter as the others, The Young Wan is also the darkest of the four as it documents the brutality, stupidity and cruelty of certain levels of Irish life.
A marvelous set of books by a gifted author.
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Title: The Granny by Brendan O'Carroll ISBN: 0452281849 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Chisellers by Brendan O'Carroll ISBN: 0452281229 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 28 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Mammy by Brendan O'Carroll ISBN: 0452281032 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: A Dublin Girl: Growing Up in the 1930s by Elaine Crowley ISBN: 1569471371 Publisher: Soho Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Agnes Browne by Brendan O'Carroll ISBN: 0452281695 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 07 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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