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Angela's ashes : a memoir / Frank McCourt. by McCourt, Frank. Scribner, c1996. Call #: 921 M131m Subjects McCourt family.   McCourt, Frank -- Family.   Irish Americans -- Biography.   Irish Americans -- Ireland -- Limerick -- Biography.   Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.   Limerick (Ireland) -- Biography. ISBN:  9780002254434 (1999 Flamingo hc) 9780684874357 0684874350 9780684842677 (trade pbk.) 000649840X (Flamingo pbk.) Description:  364 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Summary:  "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. Awards:  Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, 1997. Genre:  Autobiographies. Memoirs. Holds:  7   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Biography 921 M131m Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Biography 921 M131m Core Collection - Adult Item being held Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Biography 921 M131m Core Collection - Adult Transit Request Add Copy to MyList

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