Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt Reviews

This is one of the few books that had me moved to tears; it's about a poor Irish family whose father is an alcoholic and cares little for his family. He then leaves to America and finds work however he still cares little for his family. I found this book so sad yet in parts hilarious, the author has a real knack of finding some fun and jollity in ...  Read the complete review

Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt I found it a very easy book to get into as it starts vividly in a well-written style that immediately grabbed my interest, I like the cover and the blurb makes me want to read on. I was captivated! The main character is obviously Frankie McCourt, at the start of the book he's 5 and at the end ...  Read the complete review

I have recently received a present from my husband who has irish roots (am myself is russian) and was very captivated by the story of Angela`s Ashes. It is very easy to read when it comes to language and it just drags you into the depressive story of a family struggling with money during the way time. It is a bit dark story but it has a genuine ...  Read the complete review

Autobiographies fall into two categories. First off, there are those written by celebrities, which we read to gain an insight into the life of someone from the public eye. Often, these life stories are fairly dull, but we still eat them up and get them on the bestseller list every week. Secondly, there are those written by someone who is, in ...  Read the complete review

this book by frank mccourt is a gripping memoir of his childhood life. Beginning his life in america, him and his brother, along with his mother and his father are forced to move to ireland. moving into deeply catholic limerick, the boys are teased for their yankee accent, whilst their father is too busy out drinking the little money ...  Read the complete review

Frank McCourt has an amazing, humorous and very down to earth way of writing. It feels in the book Angela's Ashes, as if he is talking to you personally. This is a journey of a poverty-stricken childhood, that begins in one of the poorer areas of New York, then moves down into the dark "lanes" of Limerick, Ireland, in the ...  Read the complete review

My Opinion: Great book. It takes an extremely talented writer to be able to retell such a remarkable story. This book is all about the events that occured throughout his childhood. The book completely opened my eyes to the ways people back then were living- in poverty. One of the reasons I truly appreciated the book was the style in which he ...  Read the complete review

Maybe I have a weird need to be brought to tears - both of laughter and sorrow. I've read this book only the once - but have recently bought another copy, so that I can read it again. This is the real story of a young boy, living with his rather large family - in absolute poverty. Heart-wrenching and distressing in ...  Read the complete review

That a man alive in our own time could have such a tale to tell of poverty and deprivation is bad enough, that he was living in Europe is worse in many ways, because its so easy to develop the happy illusion that we're somehow more civillized - well, if this book is anything to go by, we aren't. Frank McCourt was born in America ...  Read the complete review

While in hospital my partner brought a book in for me to read, which at the time I thought was strange as I don't usually get past the back pages of a newspaper but I was convinced to read it. That book was Angela's ashes. Wow!!! Written by Frank McCourt it portrays the appalling conditions that many lived through in ...  Read the complete review

Angela’s Ashes is an autobiography following the bitter story of a boy growing in extreme poverty in Ireland and America. After you die all that is left of you is your ashes. In this story Angela’s ashes are her children - Malachy, Frank, Michael, Margaret, Alphonsus (Alfie), Eugene and Oliver. The story is told through ...  Read the complete review

A cynical reviewer might take the constant references to America in Frank McCourt's "Angela's Ashes" as a bow to the US buyer; I prefer to think that his birth in New York really did have that big an effect on his childhood. "Ashes" is the story of McCourt's 'miserable Irish Catholic childhood' in ...  Read the complete review

Angelas Ashes is the winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize, The National Book Critics' Circle Award and The Los Angeles Times Award and in my humble opinion it desrerves them all. Sure there are many books that dont deserve such high praise but Angelas Ashes by Frank McCourt certainly does. It is a witty, moving and truely remarkable ...  Read the complete review

I don't know why it's taken me so long to finally get round to reading Angelas Ashes - my mum and sister nagged at me for years to read it but i just never fancied it. I thought 'Tis (the sequal) looked good though and my mum convinced me to read AA first and i'm glad she did! It is an great story of Frank McCourt's ...  Read the complete review

I am not the world's biggest book lover and reading a book takes me ages, however, I have recently finished reading one of the most compelling stories that I have ever read and was truly moved to read of such heart ache and pain and to think that it is all actually true. I have debated long and hard about writing reviews on books ...  Read the complete review

This book grabs your attention right from the start. The book is told through the eyes of a child, Frank McCourt, and tells the story of his childhood in America and then when he goes back to Ireland for a better life. It begins with an introduction to each parent and a bit of history on where they came from and how they met. The ...  Read the complete review

“Ashes to Ashes” “Angela’s Ashes” is the story of an Irish emigrant family. Forced with a father’s unbelievable dreamy vision of life the McCourts return to the emerald isle, where through the eyes of the eldest of two boys, ‘Francis’, we find that once the very thin green surface is ...  Read the complete review

I must be perverse....I really must be. Whenever something is recommended or awarded a special prize my reactions never seem to echo those of others. Take Educating Rita for example. "It's hilarious" I was told "You'll laugh your socks off" (I don't wear socks, but if I did they would have stayed firmly in ...  Read the complete review

I have now decided to totally rewrite my opinion because my opinion has changed alot. When i first got this book i thought that it was the best book that i have ever got. It just goes to show that you cant judge a book by the first couple of pages. I am really glad that the film didn't contain half the stuff thats in the book because if it ...  Read the complete review

The book that reveals all!!! You will find this one hard to put down, either physically or in a personal sense. The story of Frank McCourts early life will make everybody I know feel lucky to have what they do. The tragedy that is spelled out is touching yet made faintly amusing by the responses from Frank, and his siblings. The angel on ...  Read the complete review