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Kelli
Jan 22, 2012 rated it liked it
Shelves: memoirs, biography
Well written but too depressing to make my favorites list.
Janet
Nov 14, 2008 rated it liked it
If grinding poverty and brutal hardship builds character, McCourt should have it in abundance. His description of a deperately poor childhood teaches me to appreciate how much I have.
Suzanne
Jul 17, 2008 rated it liked it
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I thought I knew what poverty was until I read this book. It was sometimes hard to take due to the bleakness of Mr. McCourt's early years. ...more
Rebekah
Wonderful memoir about growing up impoverished in Ireland and then immigrating to the US
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