Baltimore's Mansion
Subtitle: A Memoir
Publisher: Anchor
Published: May 15, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780385720304
First sentence: I AM FOREBORN of spud runts who fled the famines of Ireland in the 1830s, not a man or woman among them more than five foot two, leaving behind a life of beggarment and setting sail for what since Malory were called the Happy Isles to take up unadvertised positions as servants in the underclass of Newfoundland.