October Books 11) Angela's Ashes, by Frank McCourt

[nwhyte]

This was given to us by a dear Alaskan friend in Bosnia back in 1998, and I read it pretty avidly then; my other half, however, gave it up as too awful after the second dead baby. (The second is not the last.) Rereading it, I still think it's a tremendous tour de force, an agonising story of poverty and how Ireland can wreck your family; I am

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[inulro]

I read it when it first came out and lived it; I've not re-read it since. I was pretty disappointed by the sequel though.