Malachy’s brother Frank introduced us to the McCourt family in his novel “Angela’s Ashes”. Then Malachy wrote his first novel about his life in America, “A Monk Swimming”...The McCourt family lived a poverty stricken life growing up in Ireland, and when Malachy came to the USA as a young man, he was determined to change all that. He was a bartender, a hooligan, a sometime actor. Unfortunately, he was an alcoholic , too. Divorced from his first wife and estranged from his children , he was spiraling downward.
Down and out and unemployed, you can’t help but rout for Malachy McCourt:)
I loved this book, as I loved reading his first book and his brother Frank’s books. This McCourt boy had a wild and crazy life.
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