The Last of the Bald Heads
Ferdia Mac Anna
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Description for The Last of the Bald Heads
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, YES. BIC Classification: BGL; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 26 x 151 x 232. Weight in Grams: 479. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
The Last of the Bald Heads is Ferdia Mac Anna's remembering of his remarkable youth - from the trials and tribulations of growing up in a bohemian household in Howth with a theatre director father and flamboyant, charismatic mother, through to his punk days in Dublin and stardom as Rocky De Valera - before finding love and having to face a brain haemorrhage and cancer.
Using diaries from his time 'on-the-road' and many photographs, Ferdia interweaves his life story with individual vignettes that flash back and capture the most important moments and influences on his life.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Hachette Books Ireland
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Castleknock, Ireland
ISBN
9780340752395
SKU
KSS0002172
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About Ferdia Mac Anna
Ferdia Mac Anna is the author of THE LAST OF THE HIGH KINGS, THE SHIP INSPECTOR and BALD HEAD, a memoir of his battle against cancer, which became an Irish bestseller. After an early career as a rock star with his group, Rocky de Valera and the Cowboys, he now works as a radio journalist and screenwriter. Ferdia ... Read more
Reviews for The Last of the Bald Heads
'Both hilarious and poignant, MacAnna's book has me reaching for words I'd long considered lost to my delinquent vocabulary. Heartwarming, unputdownable, inspiring...that sort of thing.
Evening Herald
The Last of the Bald Heads is an enjoyable, no-nonsense memoir from Ferdia MacAnna
Sunday Tribume Magazine
the writing is fresh, honest, straighforward, and very entertaining.
Irish Times ... Read more
Evening Herald
The Last of the Bald Heads is an enjoyable, no-nonsense memoir from Ferdia MacAnna
Sunday Tribume Magazine
the writing is fresh, honest, straighforward, and very entertaining.
Irish Times ... Read more