"An engaging, funny, and tender memoir from a man of ninety years: of growing up poor in a Brooklyn and Ireland tha
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English Pages 252 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Year 2017
Table of contents :
Part I. Youth --
Sailing against the tide --
Depression Brooklyn --
All will be well --
I'm in the Navy now --
Part 2. War --
Preparing for war --
Shipping out --
Lost horizon --
Jade Dragon Snow Mountain --
The rivers of paradise --
The ungovernable sea --
Part 3. Memory --
Waves washing the sand.