Aubrey Malone

A Nursing Life

Buch

Spanning no less than five generations, this is the story of a Midleton-born nurse who rises to the top of her profession in the 1960s before marriage to a carpet salesman in Clery's sees her having to leave her job and become a fulltime mother. Tragedy mixes with comedy as tales of marital breakdown and a bullying matron mix with nights on the town and days on ever-changing wards as the health service goes through various transitions and she does her best to acclimatise herself to them. Allied with her attempts to juggle her career with the demands of a challenging home life resides a bittersweet tale of love and loss as the winso… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-913144-00-5
EAN: 9781913144005
Produktnummer: 34165733
Verlag: Penniless Press Publications
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 610 S.
Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm x D3.2 cm 777 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 777

Über den Autor

Aubrey Malone is an M.A. graduate in English from University College Dublin. He has been reviewing films professionally since 1972 when he wrote for TCD Miscellany. In 1977 he became the resident film critic for Image magazine and held that position until 1989. That year he became the resident film critic for Modern Woman, a supplement of The Meath Chronicle and held that position until 2002. In 2002 he became the resident film critic for The Irish Catholic and has held that position until the present day. His reviews can be seen posted online on this website. Also, he has been a book author since 1996 and has written numerous books on the cinema: Hollyweird (Michael O'Mara Books, ( I Was a Fugitive from a Hollywood Trivia Factory (Prion/Carlton), The Rise and Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley (Leopold books), Sacred Profanity (ABC-CLIO), Censoring Hollywood (McFarland), Maureen O'Hara: The Biography (University of Kentucky Press), The Defiant One: A Biography of Tony Curtis (McFarland) Hollywood's Second Sex: The Treatment of Women in Films from 1900-1999 (McFarland). Forthcoming is a biography of Marlon Brando from Propertius Press. He also reviews books on the cinema for various publications and writes film features and profiles for journals and magazines.