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Frank McCourt, Author of ‘Angela’s Ashes,’ Dies at 78
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| July 19th 2009
Posted on 07/19/2009 4:16:44 PM PDT by Steelfish
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posted on
07/19/2009 4:16:44 PM PDT
by
Steelfish
To: Steelfish
RIP, Frank McCourt!
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
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posted on
07/19/2009 4:26:22 PM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN 1969. St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
To: Steelfish
Death sure hasn’t taken a holiday this summer.
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posted on
07/19/2009 4:29:57 PM PDT
by
OrangeHoof
(YES WE CAN have a Depression.)
To: Steelfish
One of the greatest late-bloomers in Irish, Irish-American, or American letters, take your pick, Frank McCourt was a triumph to himself, and a tribute to the
foresight and boldness of the free enterprise spirit of his first American publisher, to think that anything would come of the memoirs of a 66 year old Irish-American schoolteacher. ( of course, his better known brother Malachy, might have helped) But anyway, one of the most surprising examples of literary success I can think of.
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posted on
07/19/2009 4:31:11 PM PDT
by
supremedoctrine
(I think we have seen the future, and should start acting on it today.)
To: Steelfish
I think Angela’s Ashes is showing on Showtime this month.
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posted on
07/19/2009 4:31:52 PM PDT
by
taillightchaser
(When a democrat says "The American people" you know the next words out of his mouth will be lies.)
To: Steelfish
I really liked “Teacher Man”
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posted on
07/19/2009 4:33:11 PM PDT
by
struggle
((The struggle continues))
To: Steelfish
Angela’s Ashes is a terrific book. Really, really enjoyed it. RIP Frank.
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posted on
07/19/2009 4:34:12 PM PDT
by
Diverdogz
To: Steelfish
May he rest in peace. Angela’s Ashes was very hard to read for me due to the tragedy of his early life. We told the story so well that it was painful to read. I kept crying and putting the book down for a day. It was worth the struggle to go back and read more.
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posted on
07/19/2009 4:44:52 PM PDT
by
armymarinemom
(My sons freed Iraqi and Afghan Honor Roll students.)
To: Steelfish
Who cares? Frank McCourt was a jerk. (Malachy is a bigger jerk.)
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posted on
07/19/2009 4:45:26 PM PDT
by
utahagen
To: Steelfish
KGB agent Cronkite, now McCourt, who’ll be the third turd?
To: Diverdogz
I enjoyed it, as well. It certainly set it in grand detail the life of deprivation his family, and many others, survived and overcame. May he now rest in eternal peace.
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posted on
07/19/2009 4:50:14 PM PDT
by
EDINVA
(A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul -- G. B. Shaw)
To: utahagen
Well, he was a liberal.
And he spoke at my HS graduation giving an OK speech. RIP.
To: LdSentinal
Wish he have left out the Church-bashing part of his Dickensian memoir.
To: ConorMacNessa
That is just too sad. A fine man; and a fine writer; and just a great Irishman. Prayers for all who are now suffering their loss. And prayers for Frank McCourt. God Speed!
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posted on
07/19/2009 5:01:35 PM PDT
by
cricket
('Don't bow for me . . Obama ' (America's 'sorry' President))
To: Steelfish
I did not care for the book and found it very uncomfortable to read, not pleasant at all. What was to be learned from it? I suppose someone will say the triumph of the spirit...but only a glimmer of that at the end of the book, mostly grinding poverty and misery. It is not a book I would reread. The adoration of it reminds me of the cult following of Catcher in the Rye which I found to be a real load...guess I’m weird.
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posted on
07/19/2009 5:04:36 PM PDT
by
pepperdog
(As Israel goes, so goes America!)
To: Steelfish
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posted on
07/19/2009 5:04:53 PM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Steelfish
His ‘story’ is not well-received amongst the Irish. I haven’t met anyone in Ireland yet who didn’t think Angela’s Ashes was a crock of shite.
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posted on
07/19/2009 5:05:16 PM PDT
by
jla
To: LdSentinal
I know I should be more charitable, but I think McCourt was a disgusting person. That he revealed in his book that his mother had a sexual relationship with a man she wasn't married to may not seem like a big deal, but I know that Irish women McCann’s mother's age would have been aghast to have something like that revealed. That McCourt would sell out his mother told me volumes about what kind of person he was. Malachy McCourt is wretched: a drunk, a blowhard, a Judas Iscariot.
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posted on
07/19/2009 5:06:03 PM PDT
by
utahagen
To: utahagen
Who cares? Frank McCourt was a jerk. (Malachy is a bigger jerk.)
Perhaps, but now we know who the biggest jerk is.
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posted on
07/19/2009 5:07:16 PM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Steelfish
He’s dead RIP..
His book is a bunch of crap...
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posted on
07/19/2009 5:09:19 PM PDT
by
GSP.FAN
(Only dead fish go with the flow...)
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