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 Frank McCourt in general
Newest Review: ... but for me the humorous description of Frank McCourt is the overriding element of the book. I do look back on the depressing parts, but I do not recall them in the unbelievably cruel way of the film, which stars Robert Carlyle. But it is however, everything that can be taken from an early twentieth century novel that can be hoped for in terms of: pain, misery, torture and suffering – ... more  ... Irish style! Frank McCourt’s novel came forth from a simple short story manuscript he never intended to become even a novel, ever. However, that manuscript was past onto people, it grew, it was past onto more people, it grew some more, and then Mc...more |
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"Angela's Ashes" This 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 scratched, nothing lies beneath but a muddy dead end lane. When the book was first published there were public burnings of the book in Irish communities in cities in the United States and in Frank McCourt’s home city of Limerick. It was claimed that the story of ‘Francis’ was over exaggerated, too far-fetched some said. But it has come ...
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