Seeing-Eye Boy - Winch, Terence
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This young adult novel brings to life the Irish immigrant world of 20th-century urban America, offering an inside look at a universe where two cultures--Irish and American--blended together. As Matt Coffey and his friends face the Fordham Baldies gang, courage, love, and a mother's sickness create unforgettable life lessons.e lessons.

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This young adult novel brings to life the Irish immigrant world of 20th-century urban America, offering an inside look at a universe where two cultures--Irish and American--blended together. As Matt Coffey and his friends face the Fordham Baldies gang, courage, love, and a mother's sickness create unforgettable life lessons.e lessons.
Autorenporträt
Writer and musician Terence Patrick Winch is the Bronx-born son of Irish immigrants. Seeing-Eye Boy, his first novel, takes its subject matter from his gritty upbringing in the Irish ghetto. Winch has published eight books of poems, winning an American Book Award, the Columbia Book Award, and an NEA poetry fellowship along the way. He's also the author of two story collections. A founder of the original Celtic Thunder band, he wrote the group's best-known song, "When New York Was Irish." Terence Winch is the former Head of Publications at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.