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Actions Shares. No notes for slide. Total views On Slideshare 0. From embeds 0. Number of embeds Downloads 1. Shares 0. Comments 0. Likes 0. You just clipped your first slide! Clipping is a handy way to collect important slides you want to go back to later. Now customize the name of a clipboard to store your clips. Visibility Others can see my Clipboard. Cancel Save. Exclusive 60 day trial to the world's largest digital library. Activate your free 60 day trial. By age nineteen, he sailed on a reverse trip back to New York and Frank was in America to stay.

Eventually Malachy would follow and they would develop a comedic act for two about growing up poor in Ireland. Frank McCourt could find humor in any situation, even one that saw his parents bury three children and live for nearly twenty years on public assistance. Thankfully, Frank McCourt reached New York and eventually told his story to the world, offering a beacon of light in even the darkest of times. View all 31 comments. The title of this book can also be "How to find humor and "excitement" in pain and poverty?

Frank has written this book so well that most of the times, it feels like we are on this journey along with him. This memoir will teach us to find humor and laughter, even during the toughest times of life.

View all 14 comments. But the worst offender of the last twenty years has to be the uniquely meretricious drivel that constitutes "Angela's Ashes". Dishonest at every level, slimeball McCourt managed to parlay his mawkish maunderings to commercial success, presumably because the particular assortment of rainsodden cliches hawked in the book not only dovetails beautifully with the stereotypes lodged in the brain of every American of Irish descent, but also panders to the lummoxes collective need to feel superior becau But the worst offender of the last twenty years has to be the uniquely meretricious drivel that constitutes "Angela's Ashes".

Dishonest at every level, slimeball McCourt managed to parlay his mawkish maunderings to commercial success, presumably because the particular assortment of rainsodden cliches hawked in the book not only dovetails beautifully with the stereotypes lodged in the brain of every American of Irish descent, but also panders to the lummoxes collective need to feel superior because they have managed to transcend their primitive, bog-soaked origins, escaping the grinding poverty imagined in the book, to achieve - what?

Spiritual fulfilment in the split-level comfort of a Long Island ranch home? And Frankie the pimp misses not a beat, tailoring his mendacity to warp the portrayal of reality in just the way his audience likes. No native Irish reader, myself included, has anything but the deepest contempt for this particular exercise in literary prostitution and the cynical weasel responsible for it. View all comments.

There once was a lad reared in Limerick, Quite literally without a bone to pick. His da used scant earnings To slake liquid yearnings; In American parlance — a dick. To get past a father who drank In a place that was dismal and dank, He wrote not in rhymes, But of those shite times A memoir that filled up his bank. View all 44 comments. I have no idea. But this book is both. Big time. The rest suffer miserable existences. And yet, somehow, Frank McCourt achieves a brilliant feat in this book.

He tells a horrific story that caused me to cringe, grind my teeth, cry and loose sleep worrying. This book affected me physically. It was beyond upsetting.

But McCourt wrote it in a way that kept me reading. As depressing as it was I could not put it down. View all 7 comments. Life is suffering. And the root of all suffering is want. And we want. Oh, we want. We want the husband to keep the job and come home sober. We want the kids to live. We want shoes and clothes that fit and don't have holes. We want to eat. We want a roof that doesn't leak and indoor plumbing, for Christ's sake.

We want the priest with the servant not to kick us from his door and tell us our suffering is caused by sin. We want something kinder than guilt or shame.

We want friendship. We want love. We Life is suffering. We want more. But why would YOU want to read this almost twenty year old memoir set in a far earlier time? What, after all, do you have in common with a brutally honest and witty boy growing up during the Depression and World War II in Limerick, Ireland?

Well, have you ever wanted anything? View all 27 comments. This autobiographical book about Frank McCourt's childhood is so lyrical and well-written that I fell in love with it by the time I was on the second page.

And then it seriously took my heart and ripped it into little shreds and stomped on the remains. When I read Angela's Ashes my children were really young, about the ages of Frank and his siblings at the start of the book. I found the story of their neglect-filled childhood in New York and Ireland - with a helpless mother and an alcoholic fathe This autobiographical book about Frank McCourt's childhood is so lyrical and well-written that I fell in love with it by the time I was on the second page.

I found the story of their neglect-filled childhood in New York and Ireland - with a helpless mother and an alcoholic father who spends his odd paychecks, as well as their welfare payments, in the pubs and lets his family starve and children die - so harrowing that I literally shoved the book under my bed after I'd read about a hundred pages and tried to forget what I'd read. It was at least a couple of months before I could bring myself to pull it back out again and finish it.

Life got better for Frank McCourt as he got older, and I managed to finish the book without more tears, but it's that heartwrenching first part of this book that really sticks in my memory years later.

View all 8 comments. Quite different from other memoirs I read--especially the brand of memoir that's been coming out in the last few years--Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes tells of the author's poverty-stricken childhood in Ireland in the early 20th century. And speaking of atmosphere, McCourt writes so descriptively and which such skill that you can real Quite different from other memoirs I read--especially the brand of memoir that's been coming out in the last few years--Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes tells of the author's poverty-stricken childhood in Ireland in the early 20th century.

And speaking of atmosphere, McCourt writes so descriptively and which such skill that you can really picture everything he's talking about.

It's incredibly well written, with a Joycean stream of consciousness that again contributes to the immersive quality of the story. I'd recommend taking your time with this one, not only because it's depressive nature is a bit too much to bear in large quantities, but also because there's so much to savor and appreciate about McCourt's story and writing. I see why this is a modern classic.

Impressive read Updating my library. View all 3 comments. I just felt depressed while reading this novel. You can't imagine that people could live in such poverty and yet survive somehow. The book is gripping but makes you feel helpless.. View all 18 comments. McCourt himself was born in New York, but this was in the s and the depression hurt everyone and everywhere, especially immigrant Irish with no resources.

So back to Ireland they go to live near his maternal grandmother. Told with equal parts humor and sobriety, this swings rapidly from hilarious to heartbreaking. A good book. View all 4 comments. I have to admit that I didn't love the first third of this book but I realize the information gained there made me enjoy the rest even more. At times, this book was a beautiful dark comedy, "There is nothing like a wake for having a good time," and I think that some day I might make my kids promise to die for Ireland.

Near the end, the young boy is trying to figure out what adultery is by looking it up in the dictionary; he is forced to look up new words with each explanation he finds and the re I have to admit that I didn't love the first third of this book but I realize the information gained there made me enjoy the rest even more.

Near the end, the young boy is trying to figure out what adultery is by looking it up in the dictionary; he is forced to look up new words with each explanation he finds and the result it priceless. There is also a part where an old man has the young boy read A Modest Proposal.

I love that essay and just read a parody of it within another parody, The Sorrows of Young Mike. I love books which reference the piece and would appreciate people to let me know any other works that mention the satire in the comments below. Picked this memoire to experience some more foreign countries through literature.

Good choice. What could have easily been another misery porn immense poverty, hunger, never-ending unwanted pregnancies, drunkenness, strict religion, deaths of TB and pneumonia on every other page became something more because of the author's remarkable voice, filled with innocence, humor and almost unwavering optimism of childhood.

Amazing that McCourt managed to preserve this voice well into his 60s. View all 5 comments. I had not planned on writing a proper review, so I began to read others'. Others claim that the author romanticizes the penury and destitution of the lives in his lane. In fact, as I read I liked that there were NO quotation marks used to indicate speech. I a I had not planned on writing a proper review, so I began to read others'.

I actually thought that was a subtle way to indicate the author wholeheartedly admitting that it is impossible to accurately recall conversations from one's childhood.

Plus, who cares about inaccuracies--a good story is a good story. To say it is maudlin is extreme. There are many unfortunate events that take place; however, not once did I get the sense that McCourt was trying to manipulate his readers' sympathies. Events were described as a child would experience them It is this fact that led some reviewers to claim that McCourt romanticized the rampant squalor and death.

That would be like saying To Kill a Mockingbird romanticizes racial prejudice. Anyway, it was an absorbing read filled with personal tragedies and laced with humor.

Definitely worth a read. If I were not such a jackass in high school, perhaps I would have appreciated Frank McCourt speaking at my graduation and even read this ten years ago.

I wish I had. If you are afraid of your emotions, whether the depth or variety of them, don't read this book. If you can allow yourself to explore them fully by being led through an incredible life's early journey and experiencing the range of feeling available to humanity, you will love this book. It's been ten years since I've read this book. Like everyone else I was floored by it when it first came out. But time and age have made me wiser.

I don't think it's stood the test of time and the more I think of it It's a one-sided, depressing view of life in Ireland. This book simply has you marinate in negativity.

Maybe I've read too much Phillip Roth in the meantime and compared to his characters this book seems too whiny It's been ten years since I've read this book. Maybe I've read too much Phillip Roth in the meantime and compared to his characters this book seems too whiny and annoying. Not so much. They were supposed to be an advance guard, followed by other French ships with the leader of the rebellion, Wolfe Tone. Briefly they triumphed, raising hopes among the impoverished local peasantry our ancestors and gathering a group of supporters wouldn't be suprised if one of them fought But before long the insurgency collapsed in the face of a brutal English counterattack.

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