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Author Clancy, Tara, 1980- author.

Title The Clancys of Queens : a memoir / Tara Clancy.

Publication Info. New York : Crown Publishers, [2016]

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY CLANCY    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B CLANCY    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B CLANCY, TARA    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B CLANCY TARA C    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  B-CLANCY, T.    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 247 pages ; 21 cm
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. -- adapted from book jacket.
Subject Clancy, Tara, 1980- -- Childhood and youth.
Clancy, Tara, 1980- -- Family.
Clancy family.
Queens (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Other Form: Online version: Clancy, Tara, 1980- author. Clancys of Queens. First edition. New York : Crown Publishers, 2016 9781101903124 (DLC) 2016020890
ISBN 9781101903117 (hardcover)
1101903112 (hardcover)
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