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ANGELA'S ASHES Author: "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Fra... more »
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This book is a powerfully written story of a boy growing up in Ireland during the war. I cannot imagine having to endure the suffering Angela survived in losing her children, one after the other and not being able to depend on her husband to bring home enough money to feed them. The fact that anyone survived during that period of time in Ireland is a miracle. I can understand why the author wanted to come to America, and why he won a Pulitzer Prize for this book.
Genres:
- Biographies & Memoirs >> Ethnic & National >> General
- Biographies & Memoirs >> General
- Biographies & Memoirs >> Historical >> General