Angela's Ashes author Frank McCourt ‘may have weeks to live’

[Are_grits_groceries]

Author of the bestseller Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt, who is battling the deadly skin cancer melanoma, is gravely ill and may have only weeks to live.

The Pulitzer Prize winner, who is due to celebrate his 79th birthday next month, was transferred to a hospice at the weekend.

According to the writer's brother Malachy McCourt, who spoke publicly about his brother's illness in May, the cancer was then in remission following a course of chemotherapy.

Describing his brother as “a hearty fellow” who had survived worse, Mr McCourt, an actor and author, denied several media reports that his brother was on his deathbed.

After receiving treatment at the world-famous Memorial Sloan Kettering hospital in New York, the writer was declared well enough to return home to Connecticut.

However, a friend said yesterday that Mr McCourt's condition has deteriorated dramatically since then and that he is seriously ill.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/angelas-ashes-author-frank-mccourt---lsquomay-have-weeks-to-liversquo-14405246.html

Ahhhhh Nooooooooooo! I love his books.

[lame54]

1. Angela's Ashes - great book

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. I loved it too. I am so sorry to hear of his illness.

[Liberal_in_LA]

13. Yep. Loved it

[supernova]

2. Aww, I love both those crazy guys

prayers to their family.

[Mrs. Overall]

6. Me, too.

[panader0]

3. Too bad

I read Angelas Ashes and Tis, both great books. If I recall, Frank was not so hardy as Malachy syas. He describes some severe chilhood illnesses.

[myrna minx]

4. This is rather sad.

:-(

[CountAllVotes]

5. sad sad sad

I know this family; friends of my family strangely.

I hope you go quick Frank so you don't suffer too much longer.

:kick:

[whathehell]

7. My prayers and thoughts to you, Frank.

[CountAllVotes]

8. thanks

it helps.

The McCourts are friends of my family - brings back memories of life in San Francisco where Malachy once owned a pub years ago.

:kick: for brother Frank.

[whathehell]

10. Like many others...I absolutely loved Angela's Ashes...I found much

that I recognized in my own background, even though mine is Irish-American rather than native Irish...A lot of people did.

[redqueen]

9. Oh no.

:(

I hope he pulls through.

[applegrove]

11. AA was so sad. Great book though.