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An only child

Frank O'Connor

1961219 pagesabout 3–5 hours
1961
first published
  • 1961Knopf · 275 pages · ENG
  • 1961Macmillan · 275 pages · ENG
  • 1961Macmillan · 276 pages · ENG
  • 1970Pan Books · 219 pages · ENGISBN 9780330024457
  • 1985G.K. Hall · 275 pages · ENGISBN 9780839828792
  • 1993Blackstaff Press · 276 pages · ENGISBN 9780856405211
  • 1997Syracuse University Press · 275 pages · ENGISBN 9780815604501
  • 2000Random HouseISBN 9780394439334

The story of Frank O'Connor is that of a shy child from a Cork slum who becomes aware that there is something beyond the confines of his life and the lives around him, something grander. And with resolve and labor, he makes his way toward it. From his childhood to the time of his release from imprisonment as a revolutionary, O'Connor conveys the moral fortune and the tragic elements of life, that sparked his storytelling - a life he describes as a "celebration of those who for me represented all I should ever know of God."

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