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From the heartland of America meet the
“Fighting-Flanigans”. That’s Flanigan with one “n” in the first syllable because someone dropped the other “n” in the ocean on the way over from the Sod.
Maureen, mother of the ten Flanigan children, is the happy warrior fighting
“the world, the flesh, the devil” and them Ph.D.’s. Always trying to shape the world better she believes that the world is Irish or would like to
be …Catholic or should be.
Trying to shape the world better sometimes takes a feisty woman, the “fighting-Irish” kind. Maureen is at times vulgar but “if by vulgarity we mean coarseness of speech, rowdiness of behavior, gossip, horseplay, and some heavy drinking: vulgarity there always was, wherever there was joy, wherever there was faith in the gods.”
In the campgrounds of life you will find campers with virtues and faults. Maureen
Flanigan, the heroine, is a virtuous mother who is keenly alive to her own faults and the actualities of life surrounding her,
“he is lifeless that is faultless,” and Maureen is full of life!
Maureen remains jocular even when confronted by another female baby-boomer who rebukes Maureen for allowing her husband, Michael, to pollute the environment by smoking a cigar.
“My ‘significant other’ has never even put a cigar to his mouth.” The
sister-golden-hair-surprise boasts.
Maureen responds, “Well, my ‘significant other’ has never put his cigar anywhere else!”
This quintessential baby-boomer-basher is a novel of picaresque fiction loosely based on Hilary McRee Flanery’s own family. (All names, though, have been changed to cover her
b*tt.) It’s a hilarious, modern day Canterbury-like-tale about a family from the heartland of America on a weekend camping trip from
St. Louis, Missouri to Chicago, Illinois.
CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN meets …ME IN ST. LOUIS to …HAVE A HOT TIME, IN THE OLD TOWN, TONIGHT!
That’s CAMPIN’ IN CHICAGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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