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SUMMARY
"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 “Angela’s Ashes” of author 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 pleasant-- does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can
provide: a story. Frank lives for his father's ....
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Number Of Words: 2133 |
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