I enjoyed the Irish humour despite the sad story. In true Irish style it is both depressing and hilarious in the same sentence.
From the cover "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive it 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"

Given to a friend

In good condition haven't read as yet

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Received today on my doorstep! Had forgotten this one was coming my way. Thank you Tasamina (and friend!).

Well, I finally read this - I'm SO sorry for the delay. I couldn't put it down but it still took me some time to read.
Wow. I found this book mostly extremely depressing. Not because it was horrible, it was actually fantastic, but because it saddened me that people had to live like that. I was so angry with Franks father, I could have throttled him. I guess I reacted so strongly because he reminded me of my dad (although he wasn't a drinker) who squandered money and left us with hardly a 'dime' each pay when I was a child. I identified with Frank, he knew he was going to get out and make it (which he did) and it was great to see the real hope, expectation even, of better times towards the end of the book. As Tasamina said, in true Irish style, it's both depressing and hilarious in the same sentence (particularly the early confessions he makes). I'm so glad I got the chance to read this book. It such a good feeling when a book can evoke such strong emotions - and it did, guess that's why it won a pulitzer!
I would love to know the story of how he fared in America before writing his first book, what happened to the rest of his family - I think there might be another book out?
Now, where to send this on the next part of its journey?...

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Getting this one out of SA! Being sent in a bag of books to Catsalive as a thankyou for taking part in my 30th birthday Release Challenge - THANK YOU!!!!!!!

Thanks, senna1.

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