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Frank McCourt has 57 books on Goodreads with 1190039 ratings. Frank McCourt’s most popular book is Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1).
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- Rena Korb
- Karen D. Thompson
- R. F. Foster
- Christopher Shannon
Aubrey holds a Ph.D. in English. In this essay, he discusses Angela's Ashes as a coming-ofage story. Angela's Ashesis a coming-of-age story. It records the growth of Frankie McCourt from an impoverished childhood to his maturity at the age of nineteen, when he is able to plot his own course in life. Through the difficult circumstances of his early ...
'Tis: A Memoir (1999) is McCourt's sequel to Angela's Ashes. It takes up McCourt's life story from his arrival in America in 1949.A Monk Swimming(1998) is a memoir written by McCourt's younger brother, Malachy, about his life mainly in New York City from 1952 to 1963. It is full of amusing stories about his experiences and th...Reading in the Dark (1998), by Seamus Deane, is a novel about an Irish boy growing up in the 1940s and 1950s in Derry, a town near the border of Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and a foc...A Dublin Girl: Growing Up in the 1930s (1999), by Elaine Crowley, is a memoir of Crowley's childhood in a slum district of Dublin. Reviewers compared it to Angela's Ashes; it has humor and poignanc...Korb has a master's degree in English literature and creative writing and has written for a wide variety of educational publishers. In the following essay, she discusses the portrayal of McCourt's family in Angela's Ashes . On the opening page of his riveting memoir, Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt describes his "miserable Irish Catholic childhood": ...
Thompson is a freelance writer who writes primarily in the education field. In this essay, she discusses McCourt's gifted use of some of the traditional elements of fiction and nonfiction. Fiction and nonfiction seem unquestionably to be mutually exclusive categories. In a library, the figurative dividing line between the two becomes a literal divi...
In the following review, Foster examines the McCourt phenomenon, and casts doubt on the veracity of some parts ofAngela's Ashes. What makes a publishing phenomenon—not merely a "best-seller seller," but a million-seller, a prize-gatherer, a cult-former, a legend still ensconced in the hardback charts when it goes straight to the very top of the pap...
In the following review of Angela's Ashes, Shannon calls it "the most refreshingly unsociological account of poverty I have ever read." Early last November, high in the Catskills, I attended a celebration of Irish music and dance, the Green Linnet Twentieth Anniversary Festival. Green Linnet is a surprisingly successful record company and organized...
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Francis McCourt (August 19, 1930 – July 19, 2009) was an Irish-American teacher and writer. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his book Angela's Ashes, a tragicomic memoir of the misery and squalor of his childhood. [1]
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by Frank McCourt. 3.75 · 39,010 Ratings · 2,635 Reviews · published 2005 · 127 editions. McCourt's long-awaited book about how his thirty-y…. Want to Read. Rate it: Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1), 'Tis, and Teacher Man (Frank McCourt, #3)
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