Genealogy Books - Angela's Ashes

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Summary: 'Tis indeed...
Comment: I've meant to read this book for years. Now, however, was the just-right time for it. I cried,
despaired, railed in my head, laughed myself silly... In a voice of unflinching honesty and
innocence, Frank McCourt details his life as the son of an alcoholic yet sometimes caring father
from Northern Ireland and the woman he fell for fresh off the boat from Ireland, Angela Sheehan from
Limerick in the south. McCourt takes the reader on a journey from death, poverty and pain in New
York City to more of the same in Ireland and back again. Settled simply between the aching hunger,
hacking coughs and continual dampness are many universal questions about life, both on earth and
after. I am breathless having finished it.

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Summary: Overrated
Comment: I wonder about the reliability of his memoirs. The Irish are great storytellers--my dad once told
me that Ireland produces the best storytellers. However, this memoir is nothing but a revisitation
of the same themes: Religion, Drinking, Sex, Poverty and then the kid grows up. I felt like I had
already read this book while reading it. I don't believe it deserves a place on the classics of
Memoirs. Read a Tree Grows in Brooklyn ahead of this.

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Summary: Child to Man,a Story Full of Heart and Soul
Comment: I could Not put this book down, I had finished about three days, thoroughly enjoying it, often
brought to tears by it. Its is very entertaining. So Entertaining , in fact that I dreaded the
close of the book and went on reading it here and there again !

It is my favorite book
for the past year. Intrigued by the way it starts in the words and thoughts of a child and advances
in the words of a very observant young person. Mr. McCourt has great imagination, perception and
memory of feeling/being young. He really writes as though he were 7 years old.

I
walked, book in hand in the house as not to put it down !

His Writing Changes as
he grows up, and when he is a young adult, the Writing is that of An Adult.

Aside from
it being So Well Written, the story itself,his childhood is timeless and classic.
/>Poverty is something everyone understands, or should.

Frank McCourt's mother Angela
is not about pride, she retains her dignity while doing anything she can to feed her children.
She's a hero.

His family suffers many tragedies, loss of children, lack of
food.......Frank's own illness as a boy, etc.

Despite Poverty and serious illness of
which he is cured, Frank succeeds to return to New York.

Upon his return to The
States, someone remarks of how great life can be in the states.

The last chapter has
but one word about this, which is "Tis" !

Customer Rating:

Summary: ANGELA'.S ASHES
Comment: THIS IS A WONDERFUL BOOK WHICH ALSO CAN BECOME TRYING WITH SUCH SEVERE POVERTY. IT JUST DEPENDS ON
ONE'S ABILITY TO COPE WITH THE "NO HOPE" DEALT WITH IN THIS BOOK. I ENJOYED THE MOVIE MORE THAN THE
BOOK, HOWEVER, THE WRITING IS EXQUISITE!

Customer Rating:

Summary: Superb
Comment: Very few times you find a book that you can qualify as brilliant and this is one of them.
Beautifully written, sad in many aspects, without becoming depressing. At the end you can appreciate
so many things that you take for granted and just admire people who can thrive despite incredible
adversities.

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