Angela'S Ashes Movie Tie in Ed._tpb - Softcover

McCourt, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 068487217X ISBN 13: 9780684872179

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1999

Synopsis

Now the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir of growing up poor and Catholic in Ireland is available in a movie-tie-in edition, just in time for the holiday release from Paramount Pictures and Universal Pictures International. The movie is directed by Academy Award-winning Alan Parker and stars Emily Watson and Robert Carlyle.

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Review:

"Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood," writes Frank McCourt in Angela's Ashes. "Worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." Welcome, then, to the pinnacle of the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. Born in Brooklyn in 1930 to recent Irish immigrants Malachy and Angela McCourt, Frank grew up in Limerick after his parents returned to Ireland because of poor prospects in America. It turns out that prospects weren't so great back in the old country either--not with Malachy for a father. A chronically unemployed and nearly unemployable alcoholic, he appears to be the model on which many of our more insulting clichés about drunken Irish manhood are based. Mix in abject poverty, and frequent death and illness, and you have all the makings of a truly difficult early life. Fortunately, in McCourt's able hands it also has all the makings of a compelling memoir.

Review:

"People" A splendid memoir, both funny and forgiving.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 068487217X
• ISBN 13: 9780684872179
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 368