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Angela's ashes : a memoir

Author: Frank McCourt
Publisher: New York : Scribner, ©1996.
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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  Read more...
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Named Person: McCourt family.; Frank McCourt; Frank McCourt; Frank McCourt
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Frank McCourt
ISBN: 0684874350 9780684874357
OCLC Number: 34284265
Notes: Sequel: 'Tis.
Description: 364 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Responsibility: Frank McCourt.
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"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.

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