Category: Biography

Copyright/published Year: 1996 by Scribner

ISBN: 0684874350

Binding: Hardcover

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

Lightly read copy that is clean and unmarked. Some shelfwear to jacket.