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Hardcover Angela's Ashes (The Frank McCourt Memoirs) Book

ISBN: 0684874350

ISBN13: 9780684874357

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

(Book #1 in the Frank McCourt Series)

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A Pulitzer Prize-winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, Angela's Ashes is Frank McCourt's masterful memoir of his childhood in Ireland. "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. This description may be from another edition of this product.

Customer Reviews

38 customer ratings | 8 reviews

Rated 5 stars
This is a must read!

I absolutely fell in love with Frank’s story. It is lighthearted yet lachrymose at the same time. This book made me laugh and cry and I definitely recommend it!

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Rated 5 stars
Captivating

Voice of an innocent child and all they understand, even when they don't understand. There's humor found in the horrible circumstances. The voice of one describing how life just was. Couldn't stop reading after this book. Continued on to his 'Tis, and very glad I did. 'Tis gave closure to his life out of poverty and Angela's life too.

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Rated 1 stars
Hard to read

Book is written like a bad English essay...lots of run on sentences. Hard to get into and read.

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Rated 4 stars
Angela's ashes

Found the book hilarious at times but very unsettling

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Rated 5 stars
'Tis magnificent!

Frank McCourt has a way with words! His memoir of growing up poor in Ireland, with a drunk for a father and lazy, shiftless mother is written without malice. He and his brothers are left to their own devices to keep themselves fed, warm and clothed when Frank, the oldest is not even four years old. They live in a house where the main floor floods every year and they have to wade through the sewage to live in the remaining...

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