Description
| Product ID: | 9781644282953 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Last Pick |
| Subtitle: | A Baby Boomer's Boyhood |
| Authors: | Author: Pierce O'Donnell |
| Page Count: | 272 |
| Subjects: | Biography: general, Biography: general, Memoirs, Legal profession / practice of law: general, Memoirs, Legal profession: general |
| Description: | A whimsical warmhearted autobiography of a twelve-year-old who became a great trial lawyerThe oldest of four children in a prototypical Irish Catholic family, Pierce O’Donnell recounts growing up in a village with more cows than residents with his WWII-hero father, who owns the only liquor store; his intellectual mother, the librarian; his spinster aunt, the local postmaster; his three younger sisters; and a ghost named Nora. Last Pick adroitly conjures up a bygone era in which this young boy’s biggest concerns were making the Little League Team (he never did), not freezing to death delivering a newspaper, making Eagle Scout, and learning Latin as a reluctant altar boy allergic to incense. This self-deprecating story of a determined, well-meaning underdog will delight O’Donnell’s fellow Baby Boomers and enchant younger generations for years to come with its witty and timeless humor. A whimsical warmhearted autobiography of a twelve-year-old who became a great trial lawyer The oldest of four children in a prototypical Irish Catholic family, Pierce O’Donnell recounts growing up in a village with more cows than residents with his WWII-hero father, who owns the only liquor store; his intellectual mother, the librarian; his spinster aunt, the local postmaster; his three younger sisters; and a ghost named Nora. Last Pick adroitly conjures up a bygone era in which this young boy’s biggest concerns were making the Little League Team (he never did), not freezing to death delivering a newspaper, making Eagle Scout, and learning Latin as a reluctant altar boy allergic to incense. This self-deprecating story of a determined, well-meaning underdog will delight O’Donnell’s fellow Baby Boomers and enchant younger generations for years to come with its witty and timeless humor. |
| Imprint Name: | Rare Bird Books |
| Publisher Name: | Rare Bird Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-01-19 |