Angela's Ashes
by Frank McCourt | Biographies & Memoirs | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 068484267x Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 068484267x Global Overview for this book
Registered by KansasKiwi on 11/11/2005
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Frank McCourt was 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 does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story.
Perhaps it is a story that accounts for Frank's survival. Wearing shoes repaired with tires, begging a pig's head for Christmas dinner, and searching the pubs for his father, 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.
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ENJOY! Happy Holidays!
ENJOY! Happy Holidays!
Thank you so much, Kansas! LOVED the postcard - what a cute idea! Hopefully, I'll get to this one soon on my Mt. TBR! Winter Break can't come soon enough!