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A whimsical warmhearted autobiography of a twelve-year-old who became a great trial lawyer
The oldest of four children in a prototypical Irish Catholic family, Pierce O'Donnell recounts growing up in a village with more cows than residents with his WWII-hero father, who owns the only liquor store; his intellectual mother, the librarian; his spinster aunt, the local postmaster; his three younger sisters; and a ghost named Nora. Last Pick adroitly conjures up a bygone era in which this young boy's biggest concerns were making the Little League Team (he never did), not freezing to death delivering a newspaper, making Eagle Scout, and learning Latin as a reluctant altar boy allergic to incense. This self-deprecating story of a determined, well-meaning underdog will delight O'Donnell's fellow Baby Boomers and enchant younger generations for years to come with its witty and timeless humor.
Contents
Author's NotePreface
Prologue
Winter
1: Hometown Boy
2: Nora the Ghost
3: "All Aboard!"
4: "Bless Me, Father"
5: Muskrat
6: Peter Pan
Spring
7: Spring Training
8: Incense
9: "Look It Up"
10: Highballs
Summer
11: Mr. Dibble
12: Sister Act
13: The Cousins
14: Last Pick
15: The Methodists
Fall
16: "Yes, Miss Gehle"
17: Happy Thanksgiving
18: "What Did Your Mother Say?"
19: Eating My Way Across Troy
20: Chin-Ups
