Angela's Ashes Binding:Paperback; 368 pages At thirty-six

At thirty-six

and medical care are all feminist issues

If all children could just get an education

This beautiful Peggy Davis art is full of flowers and birds that make you wonder what they could be discussing

So does Larkin's boyfriend Ed

Angela's Ashes Binding:Paperback; 368 pages At thirty-sixWhen I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive 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. 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.