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"When I look back on my childhood I wonder
how I managed to survive at all. It was, of
course, o 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.
'An astonishing book.completely
mesmerising- you can open it almost at
random and find writing to make you gasp
sUE GAISFORD, Independent
'My harrowing book of the year award
goes to Angela's Ashes. but it's well worth
the haunt
JOANNA TROLLOPE, Sunday Times
The most remarkable thing about Frank
MeCourt, apart from his survival, is his lack
of sorrowfulness. Angela's Ashes sings with
irreverent Limerick wit. It makes you smile
at the triumph of the storyteller, a tougher
specimen who escaped Limerick's teeming
alleys through intelligence and cunning and
lived to tell the tale?
PENNY PERRICK, The Times
"Writing in prose that's pictorial and tactile,
lyrical but streetwise, Mr MeCourt does for
the town of Limerick what the young Joyce
did for Dublin: he conjures the place for us
with such intimacy that we feel we've
walked its streets and crawled its pubs.
MICHIKO KAKUTANI, New York Times
A moving and remarkable memoir'
WILLIAM TREVOR, Guardian Boolks of the Year