The Clancys Of Queens: A Memoir
by Tara Clancy /
2016 / English / EPUB
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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
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 inThe Clancys of Queens
The Clancys of Queens,
an electric, one-of-a-kind memoir.
,
an electric, one-of-a-kind memoir.
From scheming and gambling with her force-of-nature grandmother, to
brawling with eleven-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.
From scheming and gambling with her force-of-nature grandmother, to
brawling with eleven-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
ButThe Clancys of Queens
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.
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,
With a light touch but a hard hit,The Clancys of Queens
The Clancys of Queens
blends savvy and wit to take us on an unforgettable strata-hopping
adventure.
blends savvy and wit to take us on an unforgettable strata-hopping
adventure.