Rite & Reason: I’ve recently been reading Paul McGrath’s harrowing autobiography, which is a rawer and more personal take on the genre
Rite & Reason: I’ve recently been reading Paul McGrath’s harrowing autobiography, which is a rawer and more personal take on the genre
But is John McGahern’s Memoir – which essentially deals with his childhood and his affection for his mother – autobiography? Likewise, Elizabeth Bowen’s Seven Winters, which deals with her childhood, while Frank O’Connor wrote two memoirs, An Only Child, about his youth, and My Father’s Son, about his later life.
While at home in Buenos Aires, Pope Francis had a great interest in soccer and was a follower of San Lorenzo. As it happens, my own post-Christmas reading has been far from the intellectual challenge of Newman: Back from the Brink, the autobiography of Paul McGrath. The Birmingham Post reviewer described it as “one of the finest autobiographies to be written by a footballer”.
McGrath was miserable in the Birds Nest, where the regime seemed cruel. However, he made some friends there, including future senator Victor Boyhan. Before their miserable meals, they recited grace: “Thank you, God, that the world is so sweet; thank you for the food we eat; thank you for the birds that sing; thank you, Lord, for everything.”
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