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Luck Was A Stranger: A Memoir
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ISBN10: 0595274323
ISBN13: 9780595274321
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Apr 14 2003
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.16
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780595274321
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Apr 14 2003
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.16
Language: English
Who is Bill Cooney? Is he a poet, a madman, a former candidate for the priesthood, a son of one of the most prosperous and well-liked men in the tiny town of Kilbeggan, Ireland, an apple thief, a man spared three times from certain death, a gadfly, a fearless Saxon warrior, a student of medicine at Trinity College, a truck driver, a store clerk, an insurance inspector, a night watchman, a businessman, a writer of hundreds of unpublished puns, a husband, a father, a grandfather, an animal lover? Yes, and he's also the author of this memoir.
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