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Article: An American Requiem: God, My Father and the War That Came Between Us.
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- May 24, 1996
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1996 National Catholic Reporter. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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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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