Dublin, Grasmere, Haworth ... Limerick

The Independent - London | August 12, 1997| | Copyright

Few recent novels have hit readers in the pit of the stomach with the punch of Frank McCourt's unflinching but darkly humorous memoir of squalor in the slums of Limerick, Angela's Ashes. The winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize, with worldwide sales of 1.5 million, it is becoming the publishing phenomenon of the decade.

The story opens in New York, where Frank McCourt was born to emigrant parents, and follows the family's return to his mother's native Limerick when Frank is four. The boy is one of four surviving brothers; baby sister Margaret died in New York, while twins Eugene and Oliver ...

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