The Rocky Years: The Story of a (Almost) Punk Legend by Ferdia Mac Anna
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The Rocky Years
The Rocky Years
Summary
Ferdia Mac Annas remembers his youth using old diaries and photographs. He includes, the trials and tribulations of growing up in a bohemian household in Howth with a director father and wild-at-heart mother, his punk days in Dublin and stardom as Rocky De Valera before, finding his love, and his facing a brain haemorrhage and cancer.
The Rocky Years Summary
The Rocky Years Reviews
"* '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 Tribune Magazine * 'the writing is fresh, honest, straighforward, and very entertaining.' - Irish Times Weekend Review"
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 Mac Anna was the editor of THE PENGUIN BOOK OF IRISH COMIC WRITING (1994).
Additional information
GOR002236987
9780340752401
0340752408
The Rocky Years: The Story of a (Almost) Punk Legend by Ferdia Mac Anna
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Hachette Books Ireland
2006-04-01
448
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