Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
by Frank McCourt
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Author: Frank McCourtEdition: Paperback
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 1999-05-25
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster
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Book Review: 'Tis magnificent!
Summary: 5 Stars
Frank McCourt has a way with words! His memoir of growing up poor in Ireland, with a drunk for a father and lazy, shiftless mother is written without malice. He and his brothers are left to their own devices to keep themselves fed, warm and clothed when Frank, the oldest is not even four years old. They live in a house where the main floor floods every year and they have to wade through the sewage to live in the remaining room upstairs until the water recedes. They grow so cold that they resort to tearing the walls apart for firewood. And yet his mother needs her cigarettes and his father needs his drink.
Frank's tenacity and humor in the midst of such misery is his salvation. And it is what makes this memoir so poignant. His own parents and grandparents, neighbors and the Catholic church leave Frank and his brothers to their own devices for survival. And they survive! And go to America. And it's a true story.
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