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Things You Get for Free
Michael Mcgirr
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Description for Things You Get for Free
Paperback. We live in a torrent of words - from radio and television, books and newspapers, and now from the internet. This book includes essays that explore curiosities in odd corners of the language simply to remind us of the extraordinary richness of the English language. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: BM; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 274.
At the age of 34, Michael McGirr decides to take his charming and inimitable mum on the honeymoon she and her late husband never got around to having. Between recounting their hilarious travels around Europe and meditating on the historical figures who dot their voyage — everyone from Hemingway to Michelangelo to the quietly heroic people who inspire McGirr’s special brand of faith — he plunges deep into his family history, unearthing sickness and depression but also moments of great love and perseverance. Things You Get for Free is a deeply moving ... Read more
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Publisher
Scribe Publications Australia
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, Australia
ISBN
9781922070180
SKU
V9781922070180
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99-5
About Michael Mcgirr
Michael McGirr, born in 1961, is an essayist, reviewer, prize-winning short-story writer and teacher. A former Jesuit priest, he has been the publisher of Eureka Street and editor of Australian Catholics; and is the author of Unhinged Saints, Tim Winton: the writer and his work, Bypass: the story of a road, and The Lost Art of Sleep. He lives in ... Read more
Reviews for Things You Get for Free
‘McGirr offers some of the sharpest observations on European foibles since Mark Twain swept through the continent … Readers will come for the humour, but they’ll stay for McGirr’s haunting memories of his path into the priesthood, his mother’s sacrifices and his father’s death.’
Publisher’s Weekly (starred review)
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Publisher’s Weekly (starred review)
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