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3.99 AVERAGE
A bit alienating how the narrator stays quite simple, even though he is supposedly really wellread.. he seems to hardly have any agency when it comes to his sexual awakening or even any understanding of it.
Would’ve liked more historical context.
All in all the story itself was beautiful.
Expectations were a bit too high I suppose
Would’ve liked more historical context.
All in all the story itself was beautiful.
Expectations were a bit too high I suppose
That Pulitzer Prize is totally well-earned. He totally makes you feel involved in this story and the use of present tense adds more reality and tension to it. Highly recommended!
A tragic but whimsical memoir that is at once deeply personal and sympathetic.
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
My feelings about this book are complicated. On one hand, I think it was too sad and I didn't like it, yet, on the other hand, I recognize it as a spectacular specimen of a memoir. I listened to the audio book, which I highly recommend-the author narrates and it adds so much to his story to hear it in his own voice. I could only listen for 20-30 minutes at a time because the content is heavy and took time for me to process. At times I would suddenly remember this is not fiction and sink into a moment of despair. The entire book is written in the voice of a young Frank, making his suffering and naivety quite pronounced. This memoir is ideal for fans of the genre, and/or historical biographies.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
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tense
medium-paced
emotional
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sad
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Frank McCourt's memoir of growing up impoverished in Limerick, Ireland, in the 1940s is alternating heartbreaking and brilliantly hilarious, and occasionally both at the same time.
Born in America, his mother struggled to hold the family together through an endless pattern of neglect and alcoholism by his father. After Frank's younger sister died, the family moved to Ireland to his mother Angela's home town of Limerick, where Frank grew up in the Lanes, where his father would drink the dole and his mother was left to beg for the bare necessities of life.
While the book is thick with the stark realities of the brutal cycle of poverty, it is also full of powerful moments of compassion, and some absolutely biting humor on everything from the culture of Limerick's street kids to the Catholic Church's endless cycle of sin, guilt, and absolution.
Frank's conflicting emotions toward his parents, and his struggle to forge his own path, are punctuated with moments of complete absurdity, both comic and tragic.
Born in America, his mother struggled to hold the family together through an endless pattern of neglect and alcoholism by his father. After Frank's younger sister died, the family moved to Ireland to his mother Angela's home town of Limerick, where Frank grew up in the Lanes, where his father would drink the dole and his mother was left to beg for the bare necessities of life.
While the book is thick with the stark realities of the brutal cycle of poverty, it is also full of powerful moments of compassion, and some absolutely biting humor on everything from the culture of Limerick's street kids to the Catholic Church's endless cycle of sin, guilt, and absolution.
Frank's conflicting emotions toward his parents, and his struggle to forge his own path, are punctuated with moments of complete absurdity, both comic and tragic.