Angela's Ashes

Preview

Failed to add items

Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.

Add to basket failed.

Please try again later

Add to wishlist failed.

Please try again later

Remove from wishlist failed.

Please try again later

Adding to library failed

Please try again

Follow podcast failed

Unfollow podcast failed

Get 30 days of Standard free

£5.99/mo after trial. Cancel monthly.

Try for £0.00

More purchase options

Angela's Ashes

By: Frank McCourt

Narrated by: Frank McCourt

Try for £0.00

£5.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for £8.61

Summary

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.

Frank McCourtFrank McCourtHarperCollins Publishers Limited

Funny

Most relevant

If you could sum up Angela's Ashes in three words, what would they be?

Sarcastic, funny, Inspirational.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Angela's Ashes?

When he 'helped himself' to the dead woman's loot...I kept on laughing at his use of words there

What does Frank McCourt bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

I am into accents and hearing the rich Irish and american accents made me feel as If I was there watching it all.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes...very sad that it was abridged.