Sadness and monotony of Ireland during the war ...

Writing stripped ... simple ... sometimes lasts. This writing reflects the life of Frank McCourt and his family in Ireland Exiles' 40s in the US, the McCourt family takes a boat back to Limerick, Ireland, hoping to find in the hometown and to their families a better life. Instead, in a country in a deep depression, drained of his men of war who calls on the forehead, the McCourt family lives in misery and poverty. Is it the fault of the father, who always drinks his wages in pubs and regularly wakes her family in the middle of the night to make them promise to die for Ireland? Or is it a general malaise?
Angela, the mother, trying somehow to keep the family afloat ... despite the successive deaths of her children, she is fighting for those who remain. And this is Frank, his eldest son, the author, who narrates this life of humiliation and struggle ... but also its little pleasures (eating an apple or an egg!), He has to pleasure work to help his mother, and go!
This kid hopeful despite everything, and in this, it is amazing!