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Angela's Ashes : A Memoir by Frank McCourt (2000, Trade Paperback)

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"Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt is an English-language trade paperback published by Pocket Books in 2000. This biography and autobiography genre book delves into the author's personal memoir, exploring themes of cultural heritage and personal experiences. With 364 pages, this book provides a detailed insight into McCourt's life and struggles, making it a compelling read for those interested in his story.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPocket Books

ISBN-100743205936

ISBN-139780743205931

eBay Product ID (ePID)123299997

Product Key Features

TopicCultural Heritage, Personal Memoirs

Book TitleAngela's Ashes : a Memoir

Publication Year2000

Number of Pages364 Pages

LanguageEnglish

GenreBiography & Autobiography

AuthorFrank McCourt

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Length6.7 in

Item Width4.3 in

Additional Product Features

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal929/.2/0899162073

Edition DescriptionMovie Tie-In

SynopsisFrank McCourt was born in 1930 in Brooklyn, New York, to Irish immigrant parents, grew up in Limerick, Ireland, and returned to America in 1949. For thirty years he taught in New York City high schools. His first book, "Angela's Ashes," won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the "L.A. Times" Book Award. In 2006, he won the prestigious Ellis Island Family Heritage Award for Exemplary Service in the Field of the Arts and the United Federation of Teachers John Dewey Award for Excellence in Education. He lives with his wife, Ellen, in New York and Connecticut., "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.