Angela's Ashes : A Memoir (Paperback)

from ANovelMenagerie

The Story This story is the one of Frank McCourt's, an Irish-American who was raised in Limerick, Ireland. It is his life story from his earliest memories in New York through his life in Ireland un...

from ddelmoni

I've owned this book for 10 years and repeatedly shied away from reading it. What a mistake. Within the first 3 pages it was obvious why Frank McCourt won the Pulitzer. This book is hilariously fun...

from turtlesleap

One of the hallmarks of a good memoir, for me, is the author's willingness to "bleed out" on the page. McCourt does, in a disconcertingly cheerful, matter-of-fact way. His revelations about his boy...

from karenweyant

Yes, this masterpiece is the book that started it all --- memoirs were, of course, written before this publication, but McCourt's book is the work that started the contemporary rush to record perso...

from davidabrams

Has there ever been a worse life than Frank McCourt's? Certainly, if you were a slave on a Mississippi plantation in the 1850s or a Jewish resident of Auschwitz in the 1940s, you would say that McC...