Frank McCourt returns to family life in Limerick, marked by poverty and complicated attachments.
The memoir leaves room for humour without making deprivation harmless. Choose this for readers interested in a voice that can hold pain and affection together. The appeal is the refusal to reduce a family to either hardship alone or an uplifting lesson extracted from it.
WHO IS IT FOR?
For readers interested in reported lives, ideas and the forces shaping contemporary experience.
