Angela's bashers: row over truth of Frank McCourt's memoir refuses to go away
But some have paused to wonder whether the vibrant memoir — credited with inventing the lucrative genre of “misery literature” — is in fact a true and authentic account of his childhood. Or is it largely a creation of McCourt’s undoubtedly fertile imagination? The book is the subject of a scathing attack in the latest edition of the Dublin Review of Books. Alan Titley, emeritus professor of Irish at University College Cork, denounces McCourt as a “chancer”. He accuses him of pedd...
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