| Angela's Ashes |  | Author: Frank McCourt
Publisher: Wheeler Pub Inc
Category: Book
List Price: $11.95
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Sales Rank: 243,810
Format: Large Print
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Pages: 517
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 1.2
ISBN: 156895963X
UPC: 748338011953
EAN: 9781568959634
ASIN: 156895963X
Publication Date: November 1999
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Product Description
In this memoir, Frank McCourt looks back with sadness and affection at his first 18 years growing up in New York and Ireland. The book combines stories of hunger, poverty and social deprivation with a celebration of the human spirit, laughter and human kindness.
Amazon.com Review
"Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood," writes Frank McCourt in Angela's Ashes. "Worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." Welcome, then, to the pinnacle of the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. Born in Brooklyn in 1930 to recent Irish immigrants Malachy and Angela McCourt, Frank grew up in Limerick after his parents returned to Ireland because of poor prospects in America. It turns out that prospects weren't so great back in the old country either--not with Malachy for a father. A chronically unemployed and nearly unemployable alcoholic, he appears to be the model on which many of our more insulting cliches about drunken Irish manhood are based. Mix in abject poverty and frequent death and illness and you have all the makings of a truly difficult early life. Fortunately, in McCourt's able hands it also has all the makings for a compelling memoir.
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