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"As a young girl Alice Carey realized that "home" can mean different things. The only child of poor Irish immigrants, her isolated childhood in a cold-water flat in Queens is transformed when her mother becomes the maid to legendary Broadway producer Jean Dalrymple. In Miss Dalrymple's Upper East Side townhouse, young Alice absorbs with delight a sophisticated theatrical culture that includes encounters with such notables as Jed Harris and Marilyn Monroe.
Then, a visit to Ireland with her mother thrusts the girl into another novel culture, one that simultaneously enchants and traumatizes her.".
"When Alice returns to Ireland as an adult, she and her husband serendipitously find and fall in love with a ruined Georgian farmhouse. As they begin to convert the stables into a livable cottage, Alice unearths buried memories of a childhood played out in wildly divergent homes. I'll Know It When I See It is the witty and rueful examination of her struggles to make sense of - and peace with - her recollections of a bittersweet past.
It is a book certain to appeal to anyone who's ever loved, lost, and reclaimed a home of their own."--BOOK JACKET.
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Social life and customs, Conservation and restoration, Cottages, Children of immigrants, Irish American women, Country life, Biography, New York Times reviewed, Irish americans, Country life, ireland, New york (n.y.), biography, New york (n.y.), social life and customs, Cork (ireland)People
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A daughter's search for home in Ireland
2002, Clarkson Potter
in English
- 1st ed.
060960984X 9780609609842
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