" "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all.
Frank\'s mother, Angela, has no money.
Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood."" So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland.
It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. " "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all