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By Lois C. Henderson
Published on August 6, 2010
 

Author: Gerry Boylan

Publisher: Synergy Books

ISBN-13: 978-0-9843879-3-9: ISBN-10: 0-9843879-3-5

Delightfully illustrated, with a drawing at the start of each essay, Gerry Tales is a raconteur’s dream, and should serve as inspiration for many a wedding or Toastmaster’s speech



 Author: Gerry Boylan

Publisher: Synergy Books

ISBN-13: 978-0-9843879-3-9: ISBN-10: 0-9843879-3-5

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Think Richmal Crompton’s Sweet William in teenage years and grown with family, and you get the basic idea behind this series of ‘long’ tales, which are a slightly fictionalized version, told in anecdotal form, of Gerard (affectionately known as Gerry) Boylan’s coming of age in Chicago and beyond. The twenty-three tales are side splittingly funny, and are likely to have you roaring with laughter.

Though Gerry has slightly fallen away from the faith, he was raised in a staunchly Catholic home, along with numerous siblings, who all contributed to the happy mayhem that characterized their home. Numerous encounters with members of the clergy typified his upbringing, with he and his mates bringing much disrepute to his parents by the sundry antics that they got up to both at home and at school (pinching the large brass bell from the latter being only one of them). No topic is sacred to Gerry, as, at one moment, he regales one with his placing the Baby Jesus upside down (“Buns-Up”) in His crib at midnight mass when he was in second grade at St. Mary’s Elementary School, and the next he describes how his children, after having a severe talking to, tell him that he has a booger hanging from the end of his nose. (Adrian Mole in mid-life crisis is a close parallel.) If Gerry isn’t nearly garroting himself on a barbed-wire fence, he’s busy painting his thighs green and dipping his you know what’s in a jar of water to cool them down after accidentally daubing them with concentrated Heet.

Delightfully illustrated, with a drawing at the start of each essay, Gerry Tales is a raconteur’s dream, and should serve as inspiration for many a wedding or Toastmaster’s speech. By slightly tweaking the truth, Boylan has come up with a gem of a book. Though his language is not always puritanical (as you can imagine from such a background J!), this collection of personal essays comprises a joyous and spirited autobiography. Not reading for your maiden aunt, but enjoyable by anyone with the slightest sense of good humor, Gerry Tales is a perfect boys’ night out in book form for anyone needing a down home, solid laugh.     


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