"Even before Angela’s Ashes won the Pulitzer Prize for autobiography, it was the most talked about memoir of the nineties. In fact, Angela’s Ashes was one of the most highly acclaimed books of the decade, winning also the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Abby Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Though some might attribute the success of Angela’s Ashes to the extreme circumstances of his story ("the poverty; the shiftless loquacious alcoholic father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying schoolmasters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years…") Angela’s Ashes owes its widespread appeal to Frank McCourt’s exceptional skills as a storyteller. Certainly, destitution made a lousy babysitter. The mischievous and resourceful McCourt children were often perceived as filthy little hooligans. Nonetheless, a miserable Irish Catholic childhood does provide a number of great anecdotes. And in McCourt’s confident hands, his otherwise grim upbringing is as hilarious and poignant as it is troubling."

One of the best books and movies I’ve every read and seen…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zLpf1XDNko
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http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?show=trade+paper:sale+books:068487217x:5.98

From Shmoop
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http://www.shmoop.com/literature/