Book Description
"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.
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.
Formats |
Amazon price | New from | Used from | ||
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| Hardcover | $20.16 | $4.33 | $2.35 | ||
| Paperback | -- | $1.95 | $0.01 | ||
| Mass Market Paperback | -- | $29.98 | $2.99 | ||
| Audio, CD, Abridged, Audiobook | -- | $71.31 | $13.96 | ||
| Unknown Binding | -- | $14.99 | $5.04 | ||
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2 comments:
You have this listed as the Kindle Edition, yet you have no link to the Kindle edition (Probably because the author never released one)
to @Pippymint I've just copy it from someone else id in amazon you can click the link on button that linked on amazon for the book's detail.
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