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The Road to McCarthy: Around the World in Search of Ireland

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About the Book

Pete McCarthy established one cardinal rule of travel in hisbestselling debut, McCarthy's Bar: "Never pass a bar withyour name on it." In this equally wry and insightful follow-up, his characteristic good humor, curiosity, and thirst for adventuretake him on a fantastic jaunt around the world in search of hisIrish roots -- from Morocco, where he tracks down the unlikelychief of the McCarthy clan, to New York, and finally to remote Mc-Carthy, Alaska. The Road to McCarthy is a quixotic and anything-but-typical Irish odyssey that confirms Pete McCarthy's status asone of our funniest and most incisive writers.

About the Author :
Pete McCarthy was born to an Irish mother and an English father. He is a hugely popular British television personality and the author of the critically acclaimed international bestseller McCarthy's Bar. He is also a recent winner of the British Book Awards Newcomer of the Year Award and the Irish Post Award for Literature.

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"Engaging... [McCarthy's] curiosity is infectious and there's plenty to amuse." -- St Petersburg Times "Hilarious...If McCarthy isn't telling a fabulous yarn himself, he's quoting someone who is." -- Washington Post "McCarthy is stitch. Move over, Bill Bryson. You've finally met your match." -- Chicago Tribune "An entertaining romp [and] a meditation on Ireland today." -- Conde Nast Traveler "Highly engaging...a very funny book." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "Humorous and insightful...a delightful memoir." -- Library Journal "A lively, lusty quest. McCarthy travels like a Renaissance explorer with a film director's lens." -- Publishers Weekly "The funniest book I've read this year." -- The Independent (UK) "A funny and believable travelogue." -- London Times "An engaging, evocative book." -- Mail on Sunday "A hugely enjoyable book, heartfelt, self-aware and very funny ...an intelligent exploration of what it means to be Irish." -- Kilkenny People "McCarthy is a worthy addition to the ranks of P.J. O'Rourke, Bill Bryson and Peter Mayle." -- Publishers Weekly "Hilarious, sentimental, surprising and revealing." -- Dallas Morning News "Fans of Bill Bryson will enjoy reading McCarthy's droll narrative of his rediscovery of his family's roots in Ireland."- -- Library Journal "Unfailingly sharp, good-humored and offbeat: sure to please Celtophiles of every greenish hue." -- Kirkus Reviews "With self-deprecating wit and a sly sense of the absurd, [McCarthy] makes even the most mundane experience entertaining." -- Booklist "A volume [that] cannot fail to impress even the most world-weary traveller." -- Books Magazine "A travelogue that's as hilariously gratifying as it is entertaining." -- Entertainment Weekly


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780062020796
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Collins
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Around the World in Search of Ireland
  • ISBN-10: 006202079X
  • Publisher Date: 16 Nov 2010
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 384


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