Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

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So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent 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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The author makes one feel something with real meaning is coming, but it never does. Over half of the book I would say involves sexual overtones, and I am just don't think all that vivid description is necessary.

Maybe this was his cartharsis, and if so, then I understand and hope it brought healing. I think the author has never really gotten over that aspect, and that is probably why it comes out so much in the book.

I am only giving this book one star as I was so disappointed in its content. However, he puts so much sexual content in it that I don't think is necessary.

I am glad so many enjoyed it, maybe I am the oddball. It starts out slow and I would have put it down had I known the ending at the beginning.

He does do an excellent job of describing the poor and the hard times they had which makes one want to cry and weep over the misery of that period.

But I couldn't even put it down. It is very sad and hard to believe that it really happened to those poor kids. At the end of the book I was so upset that it didn't "end." I guess I should have known there was a sequel. This is such a great book. I loved it.

Nice touch. Great service with very fast delivery. Great experience all around. With delivery originating in the UK I fully expected delivery to take a few weeks, but, it came within days. The book was in excellent condition and priced very inexpensively. The email I received detailing the time frame for delivery (from UK to US) was personable and made me feel like I was the "only" customer they had.

I can see why. He lived a childhood in extreme poverty and nearly died of typhoid fever. It is simply an amazing book.For the genre Non-Fiction:Memoir, I am going to rate this book a 10 OUT OF 10. Frank has written a composition on the Lord entitled "Jesus and the Weather" for an assignment in school. Frank suffers the loss of his twin brothers and little sister. It is his life story from his earliest memories in New York through his life in Ireland until he returns to America at age 19. This is a book that will enrich your spirit and make you feel so grateful for not only ever meal you eat, but for your health as well. Its tale was remarkable and I felt such a sense of gratefulness for the life that I've lived in comparison to Frank's.

Frank's story in Angela's Ashes is one that contains so many unbelievable hardships, yet at the same time the reader is amazed by his resilience and continued fight to make something of his life and return to America.Lisa lent me this book and told me that it was one of her favorites. This story is the one of Frank McCourt's, an Irish-American who was raised in Limerick, Ireland. There are many songs, poems and other such recitals within the book. There are so many endearing and wonderful things that Frank shares in the book that will stick within the confines of my mind for a lifetime. To avoid spoilers for those who have not read this excellent book, I will instead share with you one of my favorite parts of the book.

I don't know how it is that I had never heard of this book nor movie. On Sher's "Out of Ten Scale:"If you have not read this book, it needs to be added to your MUST READ list. What an amazing thing that would be. I have since learned that Frank McCourt received the Pulitzer Prize (1997) and National Book Critics Circle Award (1996) for Angela's Ashes. I only wish that I could meet him. His life was a remarkable one and I can't imagine living through the hardships that he's endured.

He is instructed to read it aloud to the class.This book is written without quotation marks and is written in his true voice. Reading this book was so overwhelming to me. Frank's father is an alcoholic that causes his family to live in squalor as he spends any money he earns in the pub until it is gone. He is also the author of `Tis, which continues the story of his life, picking up from the end of the Angela's Ashes and focusing on life in America, and Teacher Man about his challenges as a teacher with his students.

Mr. He never gives up, through it all he keeps on going. In this book none of the characters have quoted dialogue. McCourt's tragic tale is compelling and heartbreaking. It's a good story and an interesting look into history. I thought this would make the story boring, maybe a little dry. I was wrong.