The Clancys of Queens : a memoir

Resource Information

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Label

The Clancys of Queens : a memoir

Title remainder

a memoir

Statement of responsibility

Tara Clancy

Creator

• Clancy, Tara, 1980-

Author

• Clancy, Tara, 1980-

Subject

• New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs
• Clancy, Tara, 1980- -- Childhood and youth
• Clancy family
• Clancy, Tara, 1980- -- Family
• Queens (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs
• Autobiographies

Genre

• Autobiographies

Language

eng

Summary

Fifth-generation New Yorker, third-generation bartender, and first-generation author Tara Clancy was raised in three wildly divergent homes: a converted boat shed in working-class Queens, a geriatric commune of feisty Brooklyn-born Italians, and a sprawling Hamptons estate she visited every other weekend. From scheming and gambling with her force-of-nature grandmother, to brawling with eleven-year-old girls on the concrete recess battle yard of MS 172, to hours lounging on Adirondack chairs next to an immaculate croquet lawn, to holding court beside Joey O'Dirt, Goiter Eddy, and Roger the Dodger at her dad's local bar, Tara leapfrogs across these varied spheres, delivering stories from each world with originality, grit, and outrageous humor. Chock-full of characters who escape the popular imaginings of New York City, it offers a bold portrait of real people, whose stories are largely absent from our shelves. Most crucially, it captures--an inimitable prose--the rarely heard voices of New York's working-class women. --

Assigning source

adapted from book jacket

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

974.7/243

Index

no index present

LC call number

F128.68.Q4

LC item number

C57 2016

Literary form

non fiction