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Hence, O'Brien says, when he set up shop in New York from the national campaign, he received a database of "a couple thousand" e-mail addresses.
It is an act of renunciation that ennobles him in death and is undertaken solely due to the entreaty of his old pal Jerry Connelly (Pat O'Brien), who knows that asking Rocky to pretend he's a coward is the hardest favor he's ever sought.
This latest installment of the "Penguin Lives" series is well received, even though it trails Richard Ellman's definitive 900-page Joyce tome, which was deemed "probably this century's best biography of a writer" (David Kippen, the San Francisco Chronicle ). Undaunted, novelist O'Brien attempts something entirely different: She gives 179 pages of "hardheaded hagiography in which she spends a lot of time knocking Joyce around" (Robert Sullivan, the New York Times Book Review ). It's notable not for its wide net, but for its precision, economy, and insight: "a first-rate appraisal of a master … a model of pristine brevity" (Robert Taylor, the Boston Globe ). One complaint: The book contains an "impressive number of inaccuracies of a factual nature," such as misidentifying the poet laureate of Victorian Ireland and misquoting critic Walter Pater (Thomas Flannagan, the Los Angeles Times ). (This Joyce site has essays, links, and message boards on the author.)
O'Brien predicted that Sinn Fein and the IRA would continue to operate the "peace process" as "a fertile and rewarding field for further blackmail" and that the peace proposals "may well be defeated" by unionist voters in the referendum.
Davis L, Jr., Hurt R, Morse R, O'Brien P. Discriminant analysis of the Self-Administered Alcoholism Screening Test.
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