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Product Description Tom Ryan is the oldest of five Irish Catholic children. Through his eyes, the story of his younger brother, Harry, unfolds: \"Growing up, Harry was always the shining star of the family. He was the one you\'d name if you were trying to think of kids who were holy, and the one I\'d list as a brown-nosing little punk who deserved to get beat up on the playground for making it hard on the rest of us. He was the one God, and Grandma Ryan, had called to the priesthood.\"But Harry took a different path and chose not to enter the seminary, and eventually, not to be a Catholic. When he left for college he left for good.\"Not that I cared, but for four years, Harry never came home. No one spoke of him at the dinner table or wondered aloud how he was doing or why he had changed. His picture disappeared from the mantle. It was as if he had ceased to exist, had never existed, that the shining star had been but a passing comet lost in time and memory. It hurt Mom and Dad a lot.\" It\'s Christmas 1972, Harry\'s senior year, and the Ryan family has gathered for the holiday, all except Harry..._______________________________________Read the sequel!\"A Cape May Diamond,\" the sequel to \"Four Years from Home\" is out on Kindle and in paperback from Amazon. It is a story of life, love, and a journey of a thousand years, and is a must-read for those who want to know what really happened to Tom Ryan. Review Good book! Very funny and definitely kept me reading to find out what happened. I was very surprised by the ending, I didnt have it anywhere near figured out! Great first novel, I will be waiting for more from him. --Joy Unger, Librarything.com About the Author Larry Enright is the son of Irish immigrants, born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Kenyon College and graduated Magna Cum Laude with an A.B. in Philosophy and minors in Art and English Literature.After college, he moved to the East Coast where he filled his life with many careers including teacher, professional musician, computer programmer, and researcher. He wrote his first novel in 1980, and penned two more \"bookend efforts\" before \"Four Years from Home,\" was published in 2010. That book went on to be a top 100 U.S. Kindle best seller for three consecutive weeks and a category best seller for nine months. He has since written \"A King in a Court of Fools,\" a serial novel read by thousands online weekly for over a year until published in book form, \"Buffalo Nickel Christmas,\" a Christmas fantasy set in the 1950s, \"12|21|12,\" a short piece of alternative science fiction, \"A Cape May Diamond,\" a story of mystery and redemption, \"The Adventures of Walter Stickle,\" a 3-book series of science fiction about an ordinary man with extraordinary adventures, \"The Blacker Death,\" a thriller that pits one man against the mob and a deadly disease, and \"Transcriber,\" a story of timeless love and unnatural hate.Larry lives on a small farm with his wife and two sons where he writes full time and supports other authors in their efforts to fulfill their dreams.Find him at larryenright.com.