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This is absolute heaven, to hear Frank McCourt read his own life story with that glorious accent! My favorite nonfiction book of all time, and favorite audiobook.
However, BUYER BEWARE; I ordered the unabridged version, and was sent the abridged version. When I returned it to Amazon, I only received $1.99 out of my $10.00 purchase price. So, absolutely have this in your collection; just make sure you get every delicious word in the unabridged format.
What can I say that hasn't been said countless times about Angela's Ashes. I see now why it has all the fans that it does. I wish McCourt were a Chicano so I could claim him. Or maybe say I too am Irish. That's what I would say, that he made me feel Irish. If not for the "brogue," his story is not that different than what many of us go through growing up poor, and that includes many of us who are born and raised here.
I read this book many years ago, and I still find myself thinking about it from time to time. This was a wonderful, yet morose, novel. This story lays out a compelling story of how Frank (barely) survived childhood in the hands of poverty and alcoholism. Frank's story just gets more and more depressing as you read, but his need to survive is unquenchable.
Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt's heartbreaking memoir, is a one of a kind book. Heartbreaking, gleeful, hilarious, tender, and extremely moving, you are invited into a world of desperate poverty and fertile creativity and, finally, forgiveness and strength.
I believe this book splashed the name Frank McCourt onto the international writing scene. And I think he deserved it. I imagine there are millions of other stories much like his, and I can't imagine that it took this long for someone to tell it and gain such a massive audience. But McCourt is the one who told it and told it very well. Perhaps the best general word for the book is poignant. McCourt experienced such losses and challenges that he had to grow up long before his time. One senses that boyish struggle between wanting to just be a child and realizing that he had seen far too much of life to do that. I will not recount the crises and incidents that make up this life, but I will say that you will be moved profoundly by reading it. That is because there is heart and soul in this account.
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