ANGELA'S ASHES by McCourt, Frank ISBN 0001053094
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A memoir of growing up in New York in the 1930s and in Ireland in the 1940s. McCourt tells of extreme hardship and suffering, in Brooklyn tenements and Limerick slums - too many children, too little money, his mother barely coping as his father's drinking bouts brought the family close to disaster.
'When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. People everywhere brag or whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying schoolmasters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years. Above all we were wet...' So begins Frank McCourt's stunning memoir of his childhood in Ireland and America, a recollection of unvarnished truth and no self pity, of grinding poverty and indomitable spirit that will live in the memory long after the tape has ended. Now a major film directed by Alan Parker and starring Robert Carlyle and Emily Watson.
[edit] Book Details
[edit] Title
ANGELA'S ASHES
[edit] Author
McCourt, Frank
[edit] ISBN
0001053094
[edit] Published
06/05/1997
[edit] Publisher
HarperCollins Audio
[edit] Binding
audiobook on cassette
[edit] Retail Price
10.99 (GBP)
[edit] Typical Price Online
9.89 (GBP)
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