A Song For Mary Author:Dennis Smith In the absorbing tradition of Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes and Pete Hamill's A drinking Life, Smith mixes humor in the face of adversity with moving insight as he tells what it was like to be young, Irish, Catholic, and poor. It is a tale in which the presence of Dennis's courageous mother, Mary, is never far off, and the mystery of what has ... more »happened to Dennis's father underlies all.« less