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Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt (1996, Hardcover)

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Item specifics

Condition
Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including ...
Original Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
ISBN
9780684874357

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
0684874350
ISBN-13
9780684874357
eBay Product ID (ePID)
17068558232

Product Key Features

Edition
20
Book Title
Angela's Ashes
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1996
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Personal Memoirs, Literary
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Author
Frank McCourt
Book Series
The Frank Mccourt Memoirs Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
18.9 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-449026
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
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. 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.
Dewey Decimal
929/.2/0899162073
Synopsis
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., "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.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.
LC Classification Number
E184.I6M117 1996

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