SOURCE: "Generous Memories of a Poor, Painful Childhood," in The New York Times, September 17, 1996.
[In the review below, Kakutani asserts that McCourt's father bequeathed to him "two things: a childhood of awful, bone-chilling poverty and illness, and a magical gift for storytelling."]
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