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

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 tales of Cuchulain, who saved

Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies.

Perhaps it is story that accounts for Frank's survival. Wearing rags for

diapers, begging a pig's head for Christmas dinner and gathering coal from the

roadside to light a fire, Frank endures poverty, near-starvation and the casual

cruelty of relatives and neighbors--yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence,

story. Frank lives for his father's tales of Cuchulain, a great hero who saved

My final recommendation for people wondering about "Angela's

we should be, you should read "Angela's Ashes." Also, this novel was

when his brother Malachy and his father leave for England. Malachy Jr. has

Angela's Ashes is colored on every page with Frank McCourt's

they were uplifted again with the author's humor in this novel. I would

McCourt. Born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and

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