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Frank McCourt,
renowned Irish-American author is considered the finest
storyteller of our time. He has won virtually every major
award for writing; the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics
Award, the L.A. Times Book Award, just to name a few. His
childhood memoir, "Angela's Ashes", spent 117 weeks on the
New York Times Best Seller's List, and in hardcover, 23
weeks at # 1.
Despite the horrors of his childhood, McCourt tells his
stories with humor, brilliant description and deep
compassion for his family, even for the shiftless father who
instilled in him a love of writing and storytelling.
"When you have nothing, no TV, no radio, no music, you have
only the language. So you use it. We were street kids; we
saw the absurdity and laughed at it. And we were fools; we
were always dreaming. Bacon and eggs - we dreamed of that."
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