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| Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt |
Angela's Ashes: 'Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish
childhood', so writes Frank McCourt in his Pulitzer Prize winning novel. This is a story
of extreme poverty and hardship that is not for the faint hearted. Indeed it
sometimes traverses the line between entertainment and enlightenment.
Angela's Ashes This is a story of the fight against poverty. The McCourt family
moved back from America where they had gone to make a life and returned to
Limerick city at a time when Ireland had little to offer them. When disease, hunger
and malnutrition takes his brothers and sisters from him, young Frankie and his
brother Malachy grow up little realising that life has more to offer than old
potatoes and bolied pigs head for Christmas dinner. The family were crammed into
a tenement slum. The upstairs room was 'Italy', warm and dry. Downstairs was
Ireland, wet and cold. The rats, the death, the shared latrine and the smell of
poverty and neglect pervade every paragraph of this powerful book.
If young Frank is the hero of the story then it is difficult to regard his father as an
anti-hero. His drunkeness and eventual abandonment of his family are upsetting
and yet we still cannot quite condemn him. Frankie's mother, Angela, is regarded
with little emotion by the author and the description of her struggle and
humiliation are only very occasionally tinged with anything approaching pity.
This typical tale of an Irish childhood is now the subject of a major motion picture
directed by Alan Parker with Robert Carlyle and Emily Lloyd in the lead roles.
For details of a discounted price to get this book from Amazon click here.
Angela's Ashes - An article provided by The Information about Ireland Site.
(C) Copyright http://www.ireland-information.com USED WITH PERMISSION
childhood', so writes Frank McCourt in his Pulitzer Prize winning novel. This is a story
of extreme poverty and hardship that is not for the faint hearted. Indeed it
sometimes traverses the line between entertainment and enlightenment.
Angela's Ashes This is a story of the fight against poverty. The McCourt family
moved back from America where they had gone to make a life and returned to
Limerick city at a time when Ireland had little to offer them. When disease, hunger
and malnutrition takes his brothers and sisters from him, young Frankie and his
brother Malachy grow up little realising that life has more to offer than old
potatoes and bolied pigs head for Christmas dinner. The family were crammed into
a tenement slum. The upstairs room was 'Italy', warm and dry. Downstairs was
Ireland, wet and cold. The rats, the death, the shared latrine and the smell of
poverty and neglect pervade every paragraph of this powerful book.
If young Frank is the hero of the story then it is difficult to regard his father as an
anti-hero. His drunkeness and eventual abandonment of his family are upsetting
and yet we still cannot quite condemn him. Frankie's mother, Angela, is regarded
with little emotion by the author and the description of her struggle and
humiliation are only very occasionally tinged with anything approaching pity.
This typical tale of an Irish childhood is now the subject of a major motion picture
directed by Alan Parker with Robert Carlyle and Emily Lloyd in the lead roles.
For details of a discounted price to get this book from Amazon click here.
Angela's Ashes - An article provided by The Information about Ireland Site.
(C) Copyright http://www.ireland-information.com USED WITH PERMISSION
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