{"product_id":"9780007218714","title":"Angela’s Ashes","description":"\u003cp\u003eMcCourt’s Pulitzer Prize winning look back at his childhood. “It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while…”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeople everywhere brag or whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying shcoolmasters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years. Above all we were wet…”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo begins Frank McCourt’s stunning memoir of his childhood in Ireland and America, a recollection of unvarnished truth and no self pity, of grinding poverty and indomitable spirit that will live in the memory long after the tape has ended.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow a major film directed by Alan Parker and starring Robert Carlyle and Emily Watson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrank McCourt, the Sunday Times bestselling author, has once again proven his prowess in the genre of autobiography. His depiction of a miserable Irish Catholic childhood is a testament to his indomitable spirit and his ability to craft a bestselling book out of the most challenging circumstances.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of Winfried Georg Sebald (The Rings of Saturn), William Faulkner (As I Lay Dying \u0026amp; The Sound and The Fury \u0026amp; Light In August \u0026amp; Absalom, Absalom), General Press (The War of the Worlds), Fjodor M. Dostojewskij (Crime and Punishment), and Samuel Beckett (Dante and the Lobster).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Frank McCourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46889115222165,"sku":"9780007218714","price":18.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780007218714.jpg?v=1776888145","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780007218714","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}