The Road to McCarthy

An Anglo-Irishman in search of his roots takes readers on a classic meander through some of the world's most exotic and intriguing Irish communities in this hilarious new travelogue from the bestselling author of "McCarthy's Bar."

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Pete McCarthy established one cardinal rule of travel in hisbestselling debut, McCarthy's Bar: Never pass a bar withyour name on it. In this equally wry and insightful follow-up, his characteristic good humor, curiosity, and thirst for adventuretake him on a fantastic jaunt around the world in search of hisIrish roots -- from Morocco, where he tracks down the unlikelychief of the McCarthy clan, to New York, and finally to remote Mc-Carthy, Alaska. The Road to McCarthy is a quixotic and anything-but-typical Irish odyssey that confirms Pete McCarthy's status asone of our funniest and most incisive writers.