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Almost There audiobook

  • By: Nuala O’Faolain
  • Narrator: Nuala O'Faolain
  • Length: 7 hours 46 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2003
  • Language: English
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Almost There Audiobook Summary

In 1996, a small Irish press approached Nuala O’Faolain to publish a collection of her opinion columns from the Irish Times. She offered to write an introduction to explain the life experience that had shaped this Irish woman’s views. Convinced that none but a few diehard fans of the columns would ever see the book, she took the opportunity to interrogate herself as to what she had made of her life.
But the introduction, the “accidental memoir of a Dublin woman,” was discovered, and Are You Somebody? became an international bestseller. It launched a new life for its author at a time when she had long let go of expectations that anything new could dislodge patterns of regret and solitude, well fixed. Suddenly, in midlife, there was the possibility of radical change.
Almost There begins at that moment when O’Faolain’s life began to change. It tells the story of a life in subtle, radical, and unforeseen renewal. It is a tale of good fortune chasing out bad — of an accidental harvest of happiness. But it is also a provocative examination of one woman’s experience of the “crucible of middle age” — a time of life that faces in two directions, that forges the shape of the years to come, and also clarifies and solidifies one’s relationships to friends and lovers (past and present), family and self.
Intelligent, thoughtful, hilarious, fierce, moving, generous, and full of surprises, Almost There is a crystalline reflection of a singular character, utterly engaged in life.

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Narrator Nuala O'Faolain
Length 7 hours 46 minutes
Author Nuala O’Faolain
Publisher Simon & Schuster Audio
Release date April 19, 2024
ISBN 9780743541251

Subjects

The publisher of the Almost There is Simon & Schuster Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Women

Additional info

The publisher of the Almost There is Simon & Schuster Audio. The imprint is Simon & Schuster Audio. It is supplied by Simon & Schuster Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9780743541251.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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