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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2009 11:29:11 GMT
Frank McCourt,author of "Angela's Ashes" died this morning after a long illness. I never did read this memoir. My mother was a huge fan. Another memoir,"Teacher Man" about his years teaching in the NYC Public School system always aroused my curiosity.
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Post by livaco on Jul 23, 2009 16:42:24 GMT
I'd recommend both books, especially Angela's Ashes. He also wrote a book called 'Tis that continues his story after Angela's Ashes. I started reading it, but I never really got into it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2009 16:47:33 GMT
I'm so sorry to hear this. He was a good man. I also read both his books Angela's Ashes and 'Tis. The movie of the first book always makes me cry.
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Post by spindrift on Jul 23, 2009 17:07:12 GMT
Although it has been claimed in Ireland that conditions in that country had been vastly exaggerasted, as described by Frank McCourt - I can say with my hand on my heart that in my experience, conditions were bad in Dublin in the 1960s.... I never went to Limerick, the site of that book but it must have been similar or even worse than Dublin. I know that McCourt wrote about times in the 1930s and 40s and I cannot vouch for this but from what I saw, he can't have been too wrong. Anyway it's really only Limerick people who are horrified at what he wrote  |
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Post by Jazz on Jul 23, 2009 18:13:46 GMT
Angela's Ashes was absorbing and moving. This was a rare time when I found the film did justice to the book. 'Tis' did not fully involve me in the same way.
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