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Angela's Ashes

by Frank McCourt
Angela's Ashes - Thryft
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Memoir of a miserable Irish Catholic childhood.

Recommended for those who enjoy heartfelt memoirs and stories of perseverance. McCourt's writing style is marked with humor and compassion despite the difficult circumstances he endured.

  • Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography (1997)
  • American Booksellers Book Of The Year Award for Adult Trade (1997)
  • Audie Award for Nonfiction, Abridged (1997)
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography (1996)
  • Exclusive Books Boeke Prize (1997)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography/Autobiography (1996)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Angela's Ashes

by Frank McCourt
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ISBN: 9780684874357
Authors: Frank McCourt
Publisher: Scribner
Date of Publication: 1996-01-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: History, Biographies & Memoirs
Related Topics: Historical, Memoir, Biography Memoir, Biography, Autobiography
Goodreads rating: 4.14
(rated by 625881 readers)

Description

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.
 

Memoir of a miserable Irish Catholic childhood.

Recommended for those who enjoy heartfelt memoirs and stories of perseverance. McCourt's writing style is marked with humor and compassion despite the difficult circumstances he endured.

  • Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography (1997)
  • American Booksellers Book Of The Year Award for Adult Trade (1997)
  • Audie Award for Nonfiction, Abridged (1997)
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography (1996)
  • Exclusive Books Boeke Prize (1997)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography/Autobiography (1996)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.