Twenty Years A-Growing

Twenty Years A-Growing
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 9781879941397
ISBN-13 : 1879941392
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Book Synopsis Twenty Years A-Growing by : Maurice O'Sullivan

Download or read book Twenty Years A-Growing written by Maurice O'Sullivan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1998 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a boy's growing up on the Great Blasket, a sparsely inhabited, Gaelic-speaking island off the coast of Ireland. It tells of the simple life of a society that no longer exists, with a humor and poetry refreshingly remote from the modern world that replaced it.


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