I absolutely fell in love with Frank’s story. It is lighthearted yet lachrymose at the same time. This book made me laugh and cry and I definitely recommend it!
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Voice of an innocent child and all they understand, even when they don't understand. There's humor found in the horrible circumstances. The voice of one describing how life just was. Couldn't stop reading after this book. Continued on to his 'Tis, and very glad I did. 'Tis gave closure to his life out of poverty and Angela's life too.
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Book is written like a bad English essay...lots of run on sentences. Hard to get into and read.
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Found the book hilarious at times but very unsettling
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Frank McCourt has a way with words! His memoir of growing up poor in Ireland, with a drunk for a father and lazy, shiftless mother is written without malice. He and his brothers are left to their own devices to keep themselves fed, warm and clothed when Frank, the oldest is not even four years old. They live in a house where the main floor floods every year and they have to wade through the sewage to live in the remaining...
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In celebration of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), ThriftBooks enlisted OnePoll to survey 2,000 Americans about their novel-writing (and reading!) tendencies and we uncovered a pretty interesting story. Here are a handful of our key plot points.
We literally wouldn’t be here without our seniors, so celebrate the ones in your world for their role in creating and bringing you into it by spending time with the older, wiser, ‘been there, done that’ crowd today. But first, keep reading for a list of famous authors who either started writing late in life or kept writing until they were, well, OLD!