Category: Biography

Copyright/published Year: 1996 by Scribner

ISBN: 0684874350

Binding: Trade Pap

Description: Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish ì immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's ì mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's ì father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his ì wages. Yet Malachy -- exasperating, irresponsible and beguiling-- ì does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can ì provide: a story. Frank lives for his father's tales of ì Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh ì Step, who brings his mother babies.

Perhaps it is story that accounts for Frank's survival. ì Wearing rags for diapers, begging a pig's head for Christmas ì dinner and gathering coal from the roadside to light a fire, ì Frank endures poverty, near-starvation and the casual cruelty of ì relatives and neighbors--yet lives to tell his tale with ì eloquence, exuberance and remarkable forgiveness.

Angela's Ashes, imbued on every page with Frank ì McCourt's astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book ì that bears all the marks of a classic.

Condition Information

This is a used book and is in Good condition.

Additional condition description

1995 Trade Paperback edition. Has original owner's embossed seal (about 1" circular) on dedication page. Otherwise clean and unmarked. Some shelfwear to covers.