Angela's Ashes
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Angela's Ashes
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Narrated by:
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Frank McCourt
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By:
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Frank McCourt
About this listen
McCourt’s Pulitzer Prize winning look back at his childhood. “It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while…”
“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 while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.
People everywhere brag or whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying shcoolmasters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years. Above all we were wet…”
So begins Frank McCourt’s stunning memoir of his childhood in Ireland and America, a recollection of unvarnished truth and no self pity, of grinding poverty and indomitable spirit that will live in the memory long after the tape has ended.
Now a major film directed by Alan Parker and starring Robert Carlyle and Emily Watson.
©1996 Frank McCourt (P)1999 Harper Collins UKWhat listeners say about Angela's Ashes
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- Ruby Pearl
- 07-11-2020
Unforgettable!
A touching account of growing up in difficult circumstances told with such sensitivity and of all things, humor!
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- Anonymous User
- 22-09-2022
This is my favorite book, it was lovely to hear it
This has been my favorite book for years and it was lovely to hear it read, it made it even more special.
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- Amazon Customer
- 21-11-2022
So much is missing
Even for an abridged version so much is missing from the book. Disappointed it wasn’t a complete reading.
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- Just what I’ve been looking for for year!
- 15-04-2023
So in love
Such a great story. I’m so so sad it was a short version and couldn’t listen to the whole story once I was absolutely immersed in the story
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- Anonymous User
- 29-06-2017
Too abridged
I love this book, it's in my all-time top three. Hearing it read by Frank was fabulous, though I was disappointed not to hear most of my favourite stories from the novel.
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- Stacie
- 24-11-2022
Great book
Loved the Irish accent by the reader
He made me feel I was really there
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- Aimee morgan
- 03-02-2024
A lot missed out
This has been one of my favourite books for years, I took it on holiday with me many times and its great to hear it read by the author but so much has been left out which is a real shame
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- Anonymous User
- 10-07-2021
Too much Abridged
My favourite book, destroyed! All the bits I was eagerly waiting for had been removed. I have raved unashamedly about the book but could not bring my self to suggest that anyone listens to this. It doesn’t come near the full book. Do yourself a favour and read the printed version.
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- Sheepish
- 16-01-2023
Not need to say anything
Everyone knows how great this short story is!
I thoroughly enjoyed this reading by the author himself! What a treat!
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- Anonymon
- 28-04-2024
Love this book
Its only a very condensed part of the full book, but still a great listen.
Would be good to have all three books available.
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