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"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.
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Book Description Audio Book (Cassette). Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Read by the Author, 2 Cassettes, The plastic case is intact. The artwork is complete. Both cassettes have been tested. Sent within 24 hours. Ref: B241. Seller Inventory # JSB-B-241
Book Description 1st Audiobook Edition. Audiobook on Tape, 2 tapes, near fine condition. Physical description: 2 tapes, audiobook. Summary: Angela's ashes is the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-Era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. 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 neighbours - yet lives to tell the tale with eloquence, exuberance and remarkable forgivesness. Frank McCourt has a literary masterpiece that warms the heart as easily as it breaks it. Subjects: Ireland history. 20th century ireland; memoirs. 20th century audiobooks. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 339862
Book Description 1st Audiobook Edition. Audiobook on Tape, 2 tapes, near fine condition. Physical description: 2 tapes, audiobook. Summary: Angela's ashes is the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-Era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. 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 neighbours - yet lives to tell the tale with eloquence, exuberance and remarkable forgivesness. Frank McCourt has a literary masterpiece that warms the heart as easily as it breaks it. Subjects: Ireland history. 20th century ireland; memoirs. 20th century audiobooks. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 339862