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Angelaâs Ashesâ by Frank McCourt is the March selection for IrishCentralâs Book Club.
Each month, we will pick a new Irish book or a great book by an Irish author and celebrate the amazing ability of the Irish to tell a good story for IrishCentral s Book Club.
Throughout March, weâll be reading the Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1 New York Times bestseller âAngelaâs Ashes, published in September 1996, from Irish American author Frank McCourt.
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Synopsis of âAngelaâs Ashesâ by Frank McCourt When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive 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.
Several generations of readers have been reared on Laura Ingalls Wilder s Little House books, books that have achieved a near mythological quality in the American literary imagination. What few people know, however, is that nearly every sentence of those classic books was shaped at the hands of a gifted ghostwriter: Wilder s daughter, Rose Wilder Lane. Over the years, as Laura Ingalls Wilder became a literary phenomenon, her daughter slipped quietly into obscurity. In this biography, William Holtz presents an intimate account of Lane s adventure-filled life as a writer, a daughter and a political theorist. Drawing on her letters and diaries, he traces her life from her own gruelling childhood on the prairie to her final journey overseas, this last trip as a Vietnam War correspondent at the age of 78. After beginning her career as a journalist, Rose Wilder Lane returned to her parents Rocky Ridge farm in Missouri to aid them in a time of financial difficulty. As the Little House book