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A daughter's search for home in Ireland

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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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Publisher
Clarkson Potter
Language
English
Pages
291

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2002, Clarkson Potter
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Published in
New York
Genre
Biography.
Other Titles
I'll know it when I see it, I will know it when I see it

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.48/89162073/092, B
Library of Congress
E184.I6 C36 2002, E184.I6C36 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination
291 p. :
Number of pages
291

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3947921M
Internet Archive
daughterssearchf00care
ISBN 10
060960984X
LCCN
2001036162
OCLC/WorldCat
47136503
Library Thing
436867
Goodreads
2808191

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