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From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a collection of essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature.?IT ALL STARTED WITH MY BALLS.? So begins Colm T?ib?n?s fabulously compelling essay, laced with humor, about his diagnosis and treatment for cancer. T?ib?n survives, but he has entered, as he says, ?the age of one ball.? The second essay in this seductive collection is a memoir about growing up in the 1950s and ?60s in the small town of Enniscorthy in County Wexford, the setting for many of T?ib?n?s novels and stories, including Brooklyn, The Blackwater Lightship and Nora Webster. T?ib?n describes his education by priests, several of whom were condemned years later for abuse. He writes about Irish history and literature, and about the long, tragic journey toward legal and social acceptance of homosexuality. In Part Two, T?ib?n profiles three complex and vexing popes?John Paul II,

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