read. Its enjoyable because of its accurate potraial of poor

Irish life,and its humorous portraial of Irish catholic life.

It is also a diffrent tipe coming
of age story.

" No harm in pigs head missus, plenty of meat and children

love it..." said
the butcher. Not our type of chrismas dinner,

but beggers arn't choosers. Frank and his family
had to go

through some hard times. With a Father who drank his wages, and

a family growing
constently. sickness abounds around

the "killer river" Shannon putting strain in the seams
of the

family. When his father gose to work in England he never sends

money and they have to
take charity. Frank heroicly triumphs

throught these hard ships and eventully helps save the
family.

This is such an accurate portraial of what Irish life is based

apon.

" The only
thing worse then an Irish childhood is an Irish

Catholic childhood" many of us have been through
the things

Frank went thorough as a Catholic. I garentee that your

experiences weren't as
funny. You probably didn't get typhoid

on your conformation! You probably didn't have to go
to

confession for throwin up your first communian breakfest

either! Well at least he won't
burn in hell like he was told

the Protestants were doomed to. His trully unique experiences

keep you laughing the whole way through.

This is a comming of age tale with a twist. He deels
with

first love in a very interesting manor. He also learns very

early how to cope with death.
This is the cold hard truth and

no mushy gushy love tale of a young boy and his dog(lassie
come

home!). He deals with an interesting home life too. He heroicly

battels his way threw to
have a fun but hard childhood. He gets

his first job as a postal worker and brings home more
money

than his father ever did. This proves to be a very...rewarding

experiance.

This
is a great book and realy gives you a taste of Irish

life. While a young man triumphs over
hardships. At times this

book is depressing but the good wins out over bad in the end. I

recomend reading this with an Irish accent!

read. Its enjoyable because of its accurate potraial of poor

Irish life,and its humorous portraial of Irish catholic life.

It is also a diffrent tipe coming
of age story.

" No harm in pigs head missus, plenty of meat and children

love it..." said
the butcher. Not our type of chrismas dinner,

but beggers arn't choosers. Frank and his family
had to go

through some hard times. With a Father who drank his wages, and

a family growing
constently. sickness abounds around

the "killer river" Shannon putting strain in the seams
of the

family. When his father gose to work in England he never sends

money and they have to
take charity. Frank heroicly triumphs

throught these hard ships and eventully helps save the
family.

This is such an accurate portraial of what Irish life is based

apon.

" The only
thing worse then an Irish childhood is an Irish

Catholic childhood" many of us have been through
the things

Frank went thorough as a Catholic. I garentee that your

experiences weren't as
funny. You probably didn't get typhoid

on your conformation! You probably didn't have to go
to

confession for throwin up your first communian breakfest

either! Well at least he won't
burn in hell like he was told

the Protestants were doomed to. His trully unique experiences

keep you laughing the whole way through.

This is a comming of age tale with a twist. He deels
with

first love in a very interesting manor. He also learns very

early how to cope with death.
This is the cold hard truth and

no mushy gushy love tale of a young boy and his dog(lassie
come

home!). He deals with an interesting home life too. He heroicly

battels his way threw to
have a fun but hard childhood. He gets

his first job as a postal worker and brings home more
money

than his father ever did. This proves to be a very...rewarding

experiance.

This
is a great book and realy gives you a taste of Irish

life. While a young man triumphs over
hardships. At times this

book is depressing but the good wins out over bad in the end. I

recomend reading this with an Irish accent!

I have been an avid book reader my whole life, and I would include Angela's Ashes in
my list of top twenty.

I listened to this book on tape, and hearing the author tell his own story
was an indescribably moving experience. There is nothing like listening to Frank McCourt imitate the
voices of his teachers, relatives and priests. It was impossible to stem the tears when McCourt
described the ever-present hunger stalking the family, the useless father, the no-heart grandmother
and aunt, the deaths of his sister and brothers. And I laughed out loud as grown-up McCourt
inhabited his younger self to report on the always-puzzling behavior of the adults in his
life.

Even if you have already read the book, I urge you to obtain it on tape.