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X-WR-CALNAME:ANGELA'S ASHES is book for January in Hampton Roads at Po
	stal code 23462\, United States - Eventful
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SUMMARY:ANGELA'S ASHES is book for January
DESCRIPTION:  JANUARY'S BOOK IS ANGELA"S ASHES BY FRANK MCCOURT Synops
	is Sometimes it's worth the wait. Having waited 40 years to tell his s
	tory\, Frank McCourt doesn't pull any punches in his story of growing 
	up dirt poor in Limerick\, Ireland. Having emigrated to America\, McCo
	urt's family returns to Ireland after his sister dies in Brooklyn. It 
	is there that things turn from bad to worse. It is McCourt's contentio
	n that there is nothing worse than Irish Catholic poverty\, and his bo
	ok would seem to bear it out: his family moves to a row house in Limer
	ick that is located next to the street's lavatory. However\, the book 
	is written in a lyrical style from the point of view of Frank McCourt 
	as a boy\, and it is still filled with the whimsy of growing up and th
	e natural humor of its author. While the book is often angry (at the C
	hurch\, at his father\, at his poverty\, at his mother)\, it is also f
	illed with forgiveness without bitterness.Covering the ages spanning t
	hree to 19\, Angela's Ashes is the story of Frank McCourt's struggle t
	o escape from poverty and a tale of Ireland still seemingly in the dar
	k ages. Barred from the good schools because of his class\, teeth fall
	ing out from malnutrition\, and facing life with a shiftless alcoholic
	 father\, McCourt nevertheless survives on his wits and manages to ret
	urn to America to start his life over. Again. It is a triumph of both 
	the art of memoir writing and the author's spirit. "When I look back o
	n my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was\, of c
	ourse\, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth you
	r while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable 
	Irish childhood\, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childh
	ood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt\, born in Depress
	ion-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of
	 Limerick\, Ireland. Frank's mother\, Angela\, has no money to feed th
	e children since Frank's father Malachy\, rarely works\, and when he d
	oes he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy does nurture in Frank an appetite
	 for the one thing he can provide: a story. Perhaps it is a story that
	 accounts for Frank's survival. Wearing shoes repaired with tires\, be
	gging a pig's head for Christmas dinner\, and searching the pubs for h
	is father\, Frank endures poverty\, near-starvation and the casual cru
	elty of relatives and neighbors -- yet lives to tell his tale with elo
	quence\, exuberance and remarkable forgiveness. UNCED.\n
LOCATION:Postal code 23462\, United States @ Virginia Beach, Virginia 
	23462 United States
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