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by Gill James
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 Barney has a lot to cope with. Like any sixteen year old, he is approaching school exams, struggling with his parents and becoming interested in girls. But he has two add.. |
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I grew up in the Mission District of San Francisco. I've worked in theatre and had a play, "Letters From Rebecca," broadcast by NPR's Playhouse. I have published numerous plays and articles and an Irish American memoir called "Confessions of a Shanty Irishman." I have two books out since, including a thriller called Byron.
Aran Press handles my plays. The "60's" photo is by Clay Geerdes, Berkeley
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Beckett, Chekhov, Bob Dylan, Faulkner,Hemingway Keats, Eliot, Yeats and Little Richard were influences. Thomas Pynchon is another admired author. Sylvia Plath is a great poet. I worked one summer with playwright, Sam Shepard. There are too many important authors to name, really.
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An Irish critic named Confessions of a Shanty Irishman a book of the week. It got a favorable review in the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Confessions of a Shanty Irishman, a history of an American Irish family and a time in America is now available with two subsequent books.
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