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"There used to be certain words you couldn't say in front of a girl. Now, you can say them, but you can't say 'girl.'"
- Tom Lehrer
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ZIN Product Number: 10187013
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 0684874350
Release Date: Jan 9, 1999
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 10 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
Sometimes it's worth the wait. Having waited 40 years to tell his story, Frank McCourt doesn't pull any punches in his story of growing up dirt poor in Limerick, Ireland. Having emigrated to America, McCourt's family returns to Ireland after his sister dies in Brooklyn. It is there that things turn from bad to worse.
It is McCourt's contention that there is nothing worse than Irish Catholic poverty, and his book would seem to bear it out: his family moves to a row house in Limerick that is located next to the street's lavatory. However, the book is written in a lyrical style from the point of view of Frank McCourt as a boy, and it is still filled with the whimsy of growing up and the natural humor of its author.
While the book is often angry (at the Church, at his father, at his poverty, at his mother), it is also filled with forgiveness without bitterness.Covering the ages spanning three to 19, Angela's Ashes is the story of Frank McCourt's struggle to escape from poverty and a tale of Ireland still seemingly in the dark ages. Barred from the good schools because of his class, teeth falling out from malnutrition, and facing life with a shiftless alcoholic father, McCourt nevertheless survives on his wits and manages to return to America to start his life over. Again. It is a triumph of both the art of memoir writing and the author's spirit.
| | | | From The Publisher
When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive 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.
So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages.
Yet Malachy—exasperating, irresponsible and beguiling—does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Frank lives for his father's tales of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies.Perhaps it is story that accounts for Frank's survival. Wearing rags for diapers, begging a pig's head for Christmas dinner and gathering coal from the roadside to light a fire, Frank endures poverty, near-starvation and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors—yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance and remarkable forgiveness.
Angela's Ashes, imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 10 Average Rating:
Outstanding!
-- A reviewer, July 8, 2002
Outstanding!
-- A reviewer, July 8, 2002
Angela's Ashes
-- Amy, a student who never stops learning, July 1, 2002
Angela's Ashes
-- Amy, a student who never stops learning, July 1, 2002
Breathtaking, Heartbreaking, Eye opening
-- L. Carey, an avid reader, August 5, 2002
Breathtaking, Heartbreaking, Eye opening
-- L. Carey, an avid reader, August 5, 2002
A story so true I could feel it in my soul.
-- Pat DeClusin, someone who usually hates memiors, July 22, 2002
A story so true I could feel it in my soul.
-- Pat DeClusin, someone who usually hates memiors, July 22, 2002
Angelas Ashes is tight
-- Sam Castillo, June 2, 2002
Angelas Ashes is tight
-- Sam Castillo, June 2, 2002
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
From the time we meet the embattled McCourts and their eldest son Frank, we are beset by the same tides of folly, passion, hilarity and loss that mark their lives. Once opened the brilliant and seductive book will not let you rest until Frank emerges, more or less reared, at the close of boyhood. —Thomas Keneally
I was moved and dazzled by the somber and lively beauty of the book; it is a story of survival and growth beyond all odds. A chronicle of surprising triumphs, written in language that is always itself triumphant. —Mary Gordon
Angela's Ashes is a chronicle of grownups at the mercy of life and children at the mercy of grownups, and it is such a marriage of pathos and humor that we never know whether to weep or roar - and find yourself doing both at once.... You will be made happy by some of the most truly marvelous writing you will ever encounter. McCourt deserves whatever glittering prizes are lying around. Give the man a prix de Rome, a croix de Guerre, a Pulitzer, a Nobel, a Templeton - and while you're at it pull him another Guiness! —Thomas Cahill
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