Article: An American Requiem: God, My Father and the War That Came Between Us.

It was usual in Irish and English towns of 50 and more years ago for the front door to have a knocker and the street number in brass. And the good woman, as she was then known, would daily burnish these "brasses" until the passing years gave them a luster and patina of unsurpassing attraction -- though they were in fact just modest bits of brass. This is what James Carroll -- always a whiz with words and phrases -- has now achieved in his autobiography.

Here is fact written like a novel, family displayed in fine and even frightening detail. The years have made him a burnished-word storyteller, and the luster only age brings has produced An American Requiem.

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