Angela's Ashes by Frank Mccourt
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.Frank McCourt (1930-2009) was born to Irish immigrant parents in Brooklyn, New York, grew up in Limerick, Ireland, and returned to the United States in 1949. He was a high school teacher in New York City for thirty years. Angela's Ashes, his debut novel, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He received the coveted Ellis Island Family Legacy Award for Outstanding Contribution in the Field of the Arts in 2006, as well as the United Union of Teachers John Dewey Award for Achievement in Teaching in 2007.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781568959634 |
| ISBN 10 | 156895963X |
| Title | Angela's Ashes |
| Author | Frank Mccourt |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Wheeler Publishing Inc |
| Year published | 1999-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 517 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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