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The Story of Chicago May ペーパーバック – 2006/8/31

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Nuala O'Faolain received critical acclaim for her candid memoris, "Are You Somebody?" and "Almost There". Here, she embraces the life of a notorious criminal, an unrepentant and enigmatic daughter of Ireland - Chicago May. Legend says that May was a mesmerizing beauty, with startling blue eyes and hair spun of red and gold who captured the hearts of men wherever she went, at nineteen, she stole her family's savings and ran away from her home in rural Ireland to America, arriving first at Nebraska. May then travelled to Chicago and onto New York where she worked in a variety of unsavoury jobs and was soon hailed in tabloids as a 'Queen of the Underworld'. But this was nothing in comparison with what was to follow. In 1901, May had fallen in love with big-time criminal Eddie Guerin and followed him to Paris where together, they robbed the American Express. But they were both caught and sent to prison. She survived, returning to America to reinvent herself again and again until her death in 1929.
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    320ページ
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    Michael Joseph Ltd
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    2006/8/31
  5. 寸法
    12.9 x 2.2 x 19.9 cm
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    0141006587
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    978-0141006581
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Nuala O'Faolain's autobiographical memoir, Are You Somebody? was published to huge success and critical acclaim in America and Ireland. Since then she has also written the bestselling novel, My Dream of You and most recently Almost There. She lives in the west of Ireland and New York City.

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  • 出版社 ‏ : ‎ Michael Joseph Ltd (2006/8/31)
  • 発売日 ‏ : ‎ 2006/8/31
  • 言語 ‏ : ‎ 英語
  • ペーパーバック ‏ : ‎ 320ページ
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0141006587
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0141006581
  • 寸法 ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 2.2 x 19.9 cm
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martha williams
5つ星のうち5.0 Chicago May
2022年4月17日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
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She must have been charming in life, as all these years later, May has me enthralled. Having read her autobiography, I had to have more. This book is chock full of historical detail which is right up my alley. I also have now purchased Eddie Guerin's book, just so I can catch another glimpse of her, although his version is suspect. I did notice that May says she left home at 13 or 14 and was widowed by age 15. This book says she ran away at 19. Makes me wonder if she was trying to appear younger than she actually was, an old female trick if ever there was one. Thank you so much for writing this book Nuala O'Faolain.
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Mrs G.
5つ星のうち1.0 and could never get any relatives to open up about this being my great aunt!
2014年12月5日に英国でレビュー済み
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Found it very interesting as had been looking for this book for a long time as my mother was a Duignan from Longford.....and could never get any relatives to open up about this being my great aunt !!! It made astonishing reading as to the ways and reasoning of past days , a very good read .
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Jerry Tighe
5つ星のうち3.0 One Irish Experience
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Good book too and I enjoyed reading it and while it provides a good background of information for the time in which it was written, it is perhaps a story of one unfortunate person's story. And even moreso unfortunate that she continued to live in a life that may have been her only option. In another way, a very good period novel ... lots of stuff to chew on ...
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J. Anderson
5つ星のうち1.0 so disappointed
2007年6月12日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
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I had heard so much about this author and was really looking forward to this book, particularly as i had just finished Devil in the White City which covered the same time period. I barely made it through the first 30 pages and gave up. I felt she spent too much time dwelling on her own thoughts and feelings about her subject and not enough telling the story of Chicago May.
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Joan Stewart Smith
5つ星のうち4.0 She Did It Her Way
2007年7月28日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
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I first heard of Irish writer Nuala O'Faolain when I picked up one of her books in the WH Smith at Heathrow as I ran to catch a flight back to the States. Sometimes we are drawn to certain authors in mysterious ways, as if the moments were meant to be. Thereafter, I was led to her two memoirs, breathtaking in their candor about moving through stages of life as a young Irish girl, a writer, and mature woman coming to terms with her past.

Knowing this writer's work, I didn't expect "The Story of Chicago May" to be a traditional biography, and it most certainly was not. May Duignan, born in post-famine Ireland, nicked her family's savings and ran away to America. There, she achieved legendary status as "Chicago May," working as a thief, outlaw, showgirl and prostitute.

What I find remarkable is how the writer weaves in her own process of discovery and personal experience in researching and writing the book. This approach won't work for all readers. Some prefer the conventional biography, but others will find this book refreshing. No matter how a writer strives for objectivity, biography writing will never truly elude the subjectivity of the writer's own experience. O'Faolain did it her way, though she painstakingly researched her elusive subject. She literally traced the steps of May through city after city on two different continents.

Years of May's life were spent in prisons on both sides of the Atlantic, but she managed to survive a life on the edge. Exhausted and sick at heart, she later met police reformer August Vollmer, who convinced her to write her autobiography as a way toward the light. O'Faolain refuses to sugarcoat the "Queen of Crook's" struggle to make ends meet, her experiences in and out of prison, or her poor choices in men, several notorious crooks in their own right.

"Hope kept me up," May wrote in her last, desperate note to Vollner before her death as "a tired old prostitute" in an unmarked grave in Philadelphia. But the book is not about a character who tried to save her own soul, whatever that may be interpreted to be. It ends with just as many questions about the seeming lack of meaning in May's life, yet assures us that even such a life as hers is worth examining: "Out there, people are waiting in the dark. Shine the beam of attention out there. The dark recoils."
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