Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman (1996)

by Nuala O'Faolain

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Are You Somebody is a moving and fascinating portrait of both Ireland and one of its most popular and respected commentators. This gem of honesty and insight had its first life as the introduction to a collection of Nuala O'Faolain's Irish Times columns that became a number-one bestseller in Ireland. It now stands alone. Ireland has fallen in love with this memoir of an Irish woman of letters, and now this country will too.… (more)

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Excellent memoir about Ireland. (

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dvoratreis | May 22, 2024 |

Read about 70 pages. Good writer but I couldn't stay interested in her life, which was filled with references to people & events I knew little or nothing about. (

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Abcdarian | May 18, 2024 |

The author narrates the audio version of this memoir in her lovely Irish voice, which enhances the lyrical nature of her writing. Via tales of childhood and adulthood, family, friends, and lovers the reader is drawn along on the author's search for identity and meaning. I walk away believing that meaning comes and goes, but we must put one foot in front of the other, in an effort to "be like the cat which does not know it will perish". (

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hemlokgang | May 28, 2019 |

Read about 70 pages. Good writer but I couldn't stay interested in her life, which was filled with references to people & events I knew little or nothing about. (

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Siubhan | Feb 28, 2018 |

Didn't finish it. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Nuala O'Faolain	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Verhagen, Piet	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Zucker, Renée	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Are You Somebody Reading Guide by Nuala O'Faolain

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New York Times bestseller (Nonfiction – 1998)

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Nur nicht unsichtbar werden : ein irisches Leben

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Are you Somebody? : The Life and Times of Nuala O'Faolain

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1996

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Nuala O'Faolain

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Dublin, Ireland

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When I was in my early thirties and entering a bad period of my life, I was living in London on my own, working as a television producer with the BBC.

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That's how the life I have described here has been. There has been no steady accumulation; it has all been in moments.

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Are You Somebody is a moving and fascinating portrait of both Ireland and one of its most popular and respected commentators. This gem of honesty and insight had its first life as the introduction to a collection of Nuala O'Faolain's Irish Times columns that became a number-one bestseller in Ireland. It now stands alone. Ireland has fallen in love with this memoir of an Irish woman of letters, and now this country will too.

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