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Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt (Hardcover, 1996)
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Angela's Ashes, imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic. When 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. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy -- exasperating, irresponsible and beguiling-- does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Frank lives for his father's tales of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies. Perhaps it is story that accounts for Frank's survival. Wearing rags for diapers, begging a pig's head for Christmas dinner and gathering coal from the roadside to light a fire, Frank endures poverty, near-starvation and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors--yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance and remarkable forgiveness.Product Identifiers
PublisherPrentice Hall (A Pearson Education Company)
ISBN-139780684874357
eBay Product ID (ePID)90106314
Product Key Features
Number of Pages368 Pages
Publication NameAngela's Ashes
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory
Publication Year1996
TypeTextbook
AuthorFrank Mccourt
Subject AreaBiographies & True Stories
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height244 mm
Item Weight635 g
Item Width163 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorFrank Mccourt
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- 09 Jul, 2018
Angela’s Ashes
Very good book.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 11 Jul, 2020
Excellent read
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- 13 Oct, 2016
Excellent buy good quality and value for money
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