A Runner Among Falling Leaves: A Story of Childhood

Ciaran O’Driscoll

In this memoir of his childhood, O’Driscoll eloquently examines his troubled relationship with his father, whose bullying and mental abuse have affected him profoundly throughout his life. The task the author has undertaken is to give voice to the voiceless: to express the unnerving pent-up emotions he was unable to express as a child. In A Runner among Falling Leaves, O’Driscoll has written a book that is lyrical, affecting, and at times darkly comical.

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A Runner Among Falling Leaves

A Story of Childhood

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-vii

Acknowledgments
pp viii-viii

1 - Defining moments
pp 1-16

2 - Mother and child schemers
pp 17-30

3 - The great sliced pan in the sky
pp 31-49

4 - The sea-area forecast
pp 50-68

5 - Wave-therapy
pp 69-82

6 - Otherworldly eyes
pp 83-106

7 - Words and music
pp 107-124

8 - The toughening
pp 125-145

9 - Rites and teens
pp 146-161

10 - One sweet note
pp 162-166

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