Angela's Ashes
McCourt wrote the definitive poverty memoir — growing up in Limerick so poor it reads like Dickens, except it really happened.
“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your wh...”
Why It Matters
McCourt wrote the definitive poverty memoir — growing up in Limerick so poor it reads like Dickens, except it really happened. The book's dark humor about suffering that would be unbearable without it made it one of the most widely read memoirs of the 1990s. It won the Pulitzer Prize and proved that the Irish gift for storytelling could transform even the most miserable childhood into art.
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Personal reviewReally awesome memoir, especially the early chapters. Gets a little boring at the end but that’s okay. Awesome writing style where it’s like through the mindset of a child but still well written
Notable Quotes
“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
“Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.”