Word: nolan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story is that of Francie Nolan from her twelfth to her seventeenth year in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn before and during World War I. The book has most of the time-tested character types and situations in fiction: Katie, the hardworking, self-sacrificing mother; Johnny, the lovably alcoholic, singing-waiter father; Francie, the good, book-loving slum child who yearns to be a writer; Neeley, her little brother; and an assortment of incredible relatives, including a peasant grandmother who speaks with the wisdom of Confucius and the force of the King James Version...
...Nolan was a pale-faced, bucktoothed youngster of 23 when he scudded into Eire's Civil Service on a foam of brilliant answers to such questions as "How far is the earth from the moon?" Born in Northern Ireland's County Tyrone, he had lived until then without notable incident save a visit to Germany...
...beaten up and bounced out of a beer hall for uncomplimentary references to Adolf Hitler: "They got me all wrong in that pub." He also met and married 18-year-old Clara Ungerland, blonde, violin-playing daughter of a Cologne basket weaver. She died a month later. O'Nolan returned to Eire, and never mentions...
...views on Americans, whom he likes, were given a most favorable turn when Playwright William Saroyan turned up in Eire on a world tour "to see if it actually was a long way to Tipperary." O'Nolan thought that showed a refreshing curi osity. Saroyan told him that a better title for At Swim would have been Sweeney in the Trees (one character, cursed by a monk, lives in a tree). Later, Saroyan sent O'Nolan $50 for the suggested title...
...Nolan bought Irish Hospitals sweep stakes tickets with the windfall and sent half of the counterfoils to Saroyan. Nei ther won anything...