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"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."
Gran novela autobiográfica que retrata la miseria de la Irlanda colonizada.
Gran novela autobiográfica que retrata la miseria de la Irlanda colonizada.
I've read better, I've read worse. Mostly just helped to pass the time.
dark
emotional
inspiring
sad
slow-paced
3.5 stars. I enjoyed reading about poverty in Ireland. McCourts writing is so captivating and funny!
How do I describe this book? It's a modern masterpiece. The poverty, the humor, the absolute despair, the hope. It's beautiful.
This book is the personal memoir of Frank McCourt. He is growing up in poverty in Ireland. He lives in a wet, dirty, slum. The family would be lucky if it could be living on welfare: his father doesn't work and drinks up the welfare money.
Sickness is everywhere and many of his friends (and some siblings) don't make it to adulthood. Frank himself escapes a bout with typhoid. His eyes are constantly infected and he is constantly hungry.
Make no mistake. This book can be unbearably depressing. So why read it? McCourt has a naturally warm wit that softens much of the content. He's hilarious. The family truly loves each other. The descriptions of Ireland and growing up Irish Catholic would make it worth the read in itself.
This book is the personal memoir of Frank McCourt. He is growing up in poverty in Ireland. He lives in a wet, dirty, slum. The family would be lucky if it could be living on welfare: his father doesn't work and drinks up the welfare money.
Sickness is everywhere and many of his friends (and some siblings) don't make it to adulthood. Frank himself escapes a bout with typhoid. His eyes are constantly infected and he is constantly hungry.
Make no mistake. This book can be unbearably depressing. So why read it? McCourt has a naturally warm wit that softens much of the content. He's hilarious. The family truly loves each other. The descriptions of Ireland and growing up Irish Catholic would make it worth the read in itself.
This book is the memoirs of memoirs.
I cried, I laughed.
It made me thankful for so much in my life and also taught me to work hard against all odds.
Thr relationship between his mother, his brother and him are so beautiful. I feel so much at the same time reading this
I cried, I laughed.
It made me thankful for so much in my life and also taught me to work hard against all odds.
Thr relationship between his mother, his brother and him are so beautiful. I feel so much at the same time reading this
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
'Tis insufferable.
Which is funny, because it's all about suffering.
2/5
Which is funny, because it's all about suffering.
2/5
Oh what a gem!
Finally, I completed the last book in Frank McCourt's series of memoirs (actually this is the first book, and it so happened that I did not read in the order that it should be read lol). And it is no surprise that this became a Pulitzer Prize Winning Book because the writing it amazing, and the voice of it's author's youth is perfectly produced and expressed.
Finally, I completed the last book in Frank McCourt's series of memoirs (actually this is the first book, and it so happened that I did not read in the order that it should be read lol). And it is no surprise that this became a Pulitzer Prize Winning Book because the writing it amazing, and the voice of it's author's youth is perfectly produced and expressed.
I read this a little while after it was published. Pretty sure I reviewed it as well, no idea where that review disappeared to. I remember liking this telling of McCourt‘s largely unhappy childhood in Ireland. I am pretty sure I read the sequel as well. Other than that my mind is a blank, unfortunately.