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Covering the ages spanning three to 19, angela s ashes is the story of frank mccourts struggle to escape from poverty and a tale of ireland still seemingly in the dark ages. This priest is nothing like most of the other priests weve encountered in angela s ashes. The main characters of this non fiction, autobiography story are frank mccourt. Despite the mccourts horrid poverty, mindnumbing starvation, and devastating losses.
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