**SIGNED** Frank McCourt ANGELA’S ASHES Hardcover/Dust Jacket 1996 (LIKE NEW)

Description: ANGELA’S ASHES: A Memoir Frank McCourt Scribner Publishing, 1996, Hardcover, Dust Jacket, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Condition: Pre-owned LIKE NEW (see pictures) Product Information 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: a 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 the 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. Product Identifiers Publisher Scribner ISBN-10 0684874350 ISBN-13 9780684874357 eBay Product ID (ePID) 544464 Product Key Features Book Title Angela's Ashes Topic Cultural Heritage, Personal Memoirs, Literary Publication Year 1996 Language English Genre Biography & Autobiography Author Frank McCourt Book Series The Frank Mccourt Memoirs Ser., The Frank Mccourt Memoirs Format Hardcover Dimensions Item Height 1.3in Item Length 9.2in Item Width 6.1in Item Weight 18.9 Oz Weight 18.8 Oz Additional Product Features LCCN 2016-449026 Intended Audience Trade 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 Ashes is so good it deserves a sequel., 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 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 Edition 21 Publication Date 1996-09-05 Illustrated Yes Dewey Decimal 929/.2/0899162073 Lc Classification Number E184.I6m117 1996 Edition Number 20 Number of Pages 368 Pages

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