Ashes Dangela / Frank McCourt Frank McCourt was born in Brooklyn in 1930 and died in 2009 in New York. This autobiography is history dune Irish family plunged into utter poverty, McCourt. The father, Malachy McCourt, dAntrim originated in Northern Ireland, went young to America after personal troubles. He met Angela, a young Irish native of Limerick in southern Ireland. Married in New York, they had five children: Malachy wool, Frank the narrator, twins Oliver and Eugene, Margaret and the only girl. Malachy is an inveterate alcoholic and maintains his family in abject poverty while drinking his meager salary in the bars in the neighborhood. A little crazy and obsessed with his native country, he is able to awaken in the night for their children to sing patriotic songs Irish by shouting: "You will die for Lirlande, is not it boys? " To the chagrin of neighbors, awakened in the heart of the night, trying to bring him to reason. Following the death of little Margaret, the family returns home to settle down in very precarious conditions in Limerick on the west coast of the Emerald Isle. With an alcoholic father no fixed workplace, the most terrible misery will endure and the author writes: "When I see my childhood, the fact to have survived métonne. " In a picturesque and colorful style, maintaining a sense of humor that sometimes mask the state of dereliction prevailing in this poor siblings, Frank McCourt recounts with a certain detachment and childrens eyes with this dramatic poverty that sticks to their skin. Humor is still there even during communion: "God has been good. He melted and I swallowed Lai then, finally, I was a member of the true Church, an official sinner. "Whispered Frankie! Frank was twelve years old when his father went to England to try to find work. Frank, hungry, lives dexpédients and odd jobs to help his mother feed her three surviving brothers. At déconomiser strength, he manages to leave to America at the age of 19. It sinstalle in Manhattan in 1949 and the story stops there. He became a writer and a famous man. What is striking in this wonderful story, this is Frank's lucidity: he observes the world around him, his parents, neighbors and like to spend hours in the library. Never minded revolt, but rather an ongoing search for extricate himself and his family. This book is also a sociological survey describing the misery in southern Ireland at that time. "There are plenty of salt and butter in the potatoes and I wonder sil there would be a chance that Minnie could be my mother so I could eat all the time like that. If I could have Mrs. Leibowitz and Minnie as mothers at the same time, I menverrais soup and mashed potatoes with nen endless. " When hunger is important to us !!
