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: Scribner
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Book Review: A Child's View of his Impoverished Family
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an incredible, wonderfully written memoir. It is
about Frank McCourt's childhood in Limerick, Ireland. He
captures the poverty, abuse, alcoholism and dysfunction in
his family. However, he also captures his family's love,
acceptance and forgiveness.
One scene is unforgettable to me. The basement floods with
sewage and the family is forced to deal with the smell,
grossness and the overall disgust. Frank's mother tells
her children that since they are not living in the basement
that they are in a castle and thus are royalty. What a
wonderful metaphor for these children!
The depiction of poverty is vivid and accurate. That this
book is written from a child's vantage point only proves
to make it more miraculous. This book is truly brilliant.
Summary of Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
Irish-American Frank McCourt looks back with sadness and affection at his first 18 years of growing up in New York and Ireland."Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood," writes Frank McCourt in Angela's Ashes. "Worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." Welcome, then, to the pinnacle of the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. Born in Brooklyn in 1930 to recent Irish immigrants Malachy and Angela McCourt, Frank grew up in Limerick after his parents returned to Ireland because of poor prospects in America. It turns out that prospects weren't so great back in the old country either--not with Malachy for a father. A chronically unemployed and nearly unemployable alcoholic, he appears to be the model on which many of our more insulting cliches about drunken Irish manhood are based. Mix in abject poverty and frequent death and illness and you have all the makings of a truly difficult early life. Fortunately, in McCourt's able hands it also has all the makings for a compelling memoir.
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