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The Clancys of Queens
- A Memoir
- Lu par : Tara Clancy
- Durée : 5 h et 51 min
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Editors Select, October 2016 - Growing up, Tara Clancy spent weekdays with her dad in Broad Channel - a part of Queens that is poor, isolated, and sectioned off from the outside world by a wall of blue portable toilets. On weekends, she'd go visit her mom and her mom's millionaire boyfriend in the Hamptons. Able to "leap social strata in a single bound", Clancy offers all kinds of anecdotes imbued with the polarity of two entirely different environments and the contrasting characters she came to call family. What really makes her memoir, though, is Clancy's wonderful thick New York accent. She is a born narrator and spoken-word storyteller. Chock full of wit and charm, her stories will keep you laughing and, if you're lucky, speaking with a Queens-bred twang. Michael, Audible Editor
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A witty memoir that weaves an authentic coming-of-age tale into a bold portrait of New York’s working-class women.
Fifth-generation New Yorker, third-generation bartender, and first-generation author Tara Clancy was raised in three wildly divergent homes: a converted boat shed in working class Queens, a geriatric commune of feisty, Brooklyn-born Italians, and a sprawling Hamptons estate she visited every other weekend. This childhood triptych comes to life in The Clancys of Queens, an electric, one-of-a-kind memoir.
From scheming and gambling with her force-of-nature grandmother, to brawling with 11-year-old girls on the concrete recess battle yard of MS 172, to hours lounging on Adirondack chairs beside an immaculate croquet lawn, to holding court beside Joey O’Dirt, Goiter Eddy, and Roger the Dodger at her Dad’s local bar, Tara leapfrogs across these varied spheres, delivering stories from each world with originality, grit, and outrageous humor.
But The Clancys of Queens is not merely an authentic coming-of-age tale or a rowdy barstool biography. Chock-full of characters who escape the popular imaginings of this city, it offers a bold portrait of real people, people whose stories are largely absent from our shelves. Most crucially, it captures - in inimitable prose - the rarely-heard voices of New York’s working-class women.
With a light touch but a hard hit, The Clancys of Queens blends savvy and wit to take us on an unforgettable strata-hopping adventure.
