Barry, Dan. Pull Me up: A Memoir.BARRY, Dan. Pull me up, a memoir. Norton. 325p. c2004. 0-393-32691-8. $14.95. SA Dan Barry, a New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times columnist, invites readers into his life in this beautifully written memoir. Born in 1958, Barry grew up in a working-class Irish family on Long Island. His father was a hard-drinking four-pack-a day man afflicted with cluster migraines, and his mother was originally from County Galway--she never became an American citizen but loved her adopted country. His youth was spent playing baseball, attending Catholic schools, searching the skies for UFOs (his father was an avid student of the paranormal paranormal, adj 1. outside the realm of normal experience or scientific explanation. n 2. collective term for anomalous phenomena. ), listening to his mother's Johnny Cash albums, riding in the family's 1968 Chevy Impala impala, species of antelope, Aepyceros melampus, closely related to the gazelle and found in the savannah and bush country of E and S Africa. It is the antelope most commonly depicted in illustrations and in motion pictures. station wagon with his three younger siblings, and making it into college with no vocation. There he met Mary Katherine Anne Trinity, daughter of Mary and Joseph Trinity, niece of Franciscans and Sisters of Mercy (R. C. Ch.) a religious order founded in Dublin in the year 1827. Communities of the same name have since been established in various American cities. The duties of those belonging to the order are, to attend lying-in hospitals, to superintend the education of girls, and protect , whom he married in 1990 after 12 years of courtship. His first job, unless you count manual labor, was on the Journal Inquirer of Manchester, Connecticut. He soon moved up to the Providence Journal where he covered the shenanigans shenanigans Noun, pl Informal 1. mischief or nonsense 2. trickery or deception [origin unknown] of Mayor Buddy Cianci for seven years. Barry joined the Times staff in 1995, and served as the Long Island bureau chief. After years of smoking, Barry's mother died of lung cancer lung cancer, cancer that originates in the tissues of the lungs. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States in both men and women. Like other cancers, lung cancer occurs after repeated insults to the genetic material of the cell. , clutching her eldest child and crying "Pull me up, Danny! Pull me up!" (the book's title). Barry's memoir is hilarious, honest, and poetic. It is a model of writing for mature high school students by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Janet Julian, retired English Teacher, Grafton, MA S--Recommended for senior high school students. A--Recommended for advanced students and adults. This code will help librarians and teachers working in high schools where there are honors and advanced placement students. This also will help extend KLIATT's usefulness in public libraries. |
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