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Frank McCourt is a marvelous writer whose words are made all the better when he reads them aloud. His highly acclaimed memoir, Angela's Ashes, which he does read aloud here, is an instance of audio excellence that just may improve on the printed word.
McCourt was born in Brooklyn to immigrant Irish parents who returned, with their growing family, to live in the dank slums of Limerick. If, as Frank maintains with his enduring humor, "the happy childhood is hardly worth your while," then he had a very worthwhile childhood complete with a "shiftless loquacious, alcoholic father and a pious, defeated mother."
The memoir begins in the early 1930s and ends in 1948, when Frank returns to America. Though McCourt's life in Ireland was grim, often desperate, he writes of it without bitterness and with a lilting, lasting grace.
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