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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
PublisherScribner
ISBN-100684874350
ISBN-139780684874357
eBay Product ID (ePID)544464
Product Key Features
Publication Year1996
TopicCultural Heritage, Personal Memoirs, Literary
Book TitleAngela's Ashes
LanguageEnglish
GenreBiography & Autobiography
AuthorFrank McCourt
Book SeriesThe Frank Mccourt Memoirs Ser., The Frank Mccourt Memoirs
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3in
Item Length9.2in
Weight18.8 Oz
Item Weight18.9 Oz
Item Width6.1in
Additional Product Features
LCCN2016-449026
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition21
ReviewsMalcom Jones, Jr.NewsweekIt is only the best storyteller who can so beguile his readers that he leaves them wanting more when he's done. WithAngela's Ashes,McCourt proves himself one of the very best., Malcom Jones, Jr. Newsweek It is only the best storyteller who can so beguile his readers that he leaves them wanting more when he's done. With Angela's Ashes, McCourt proves himself one of the very best., Michiko Kakutani The New York Times The reader of this stunning memoir can only hope that Mr. McCourt will set down the story of his subsequent adventures in America in another book. Angela's Ashes is so good it deserves a sequel., Michiko KakutaniThe New York TimesThe reader of this stunning memoir can only hope that Mr. McCourt will set down the story of his subsequent adventures in America in another book.Angela's Ashesis so good it deserves a sequel., Malcom Jones, Jr.NewsweekIt is only the best storyteller who can so beguile his readers that he leaves them wanting more when he's done. With Angela's Ashes, McCourt proves himself one of the very best., Michiko KakutaniThe New York TimesThe reader of this stunning memoir can only hope that Mr. McCourt will set down the story of his subsequent adventures in America in another book. Angela's Ashes is so good it deserves a sequel.
Publication Date1996-09-05
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal929/.2/0899162073
Lc Classification NumberE184.I6m117 1996
Edition Number20
Number of Pages368 Pages
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- 02. Sep. 2016
Angela's ashes
Wonderful read,compelling stories of life in Limerick during Frank McCourt's childhood and beyond. Couldn't put this book down,even though I have read this book twice before,each time I read it I get something different from it !Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 30. Mär. 2017
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A masterpiece. Now to get it signed...full marks!!Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 01. Mär. 2016
Love it!
Arrived sooner than i thought. Love the packaging. Mint condition. Excellent read. Thank you!Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 11. Mai. 2021
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EXCELLENT BOOK IN ALL AREASBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
