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Angela's Ashes a memoir

By: McCourt, Frank

Price: $3.99

Publisher: New York, Scribner: 1996

Seller ID: 1471

ISBN: 0684874350

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Perhaps it is story that accounts for Frank's survival. Wearing rags for diapers, begging a pig's head for holiday 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 compasison, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic. As Mary Breasted, author of Why Should You Doubt Me Now said: "Frank McCourt's book is deeply moving...
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'Tis a memoir

By: McCourt, Frank

Price: $5.19

Publisher: New York, NY, Scribner: 1999

Seller ID: 1643

ISBN: 0684848783

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

This is the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. Frank lands in New York at age nineteen, in the company of a priest he meets on the boat. He gets a job at the Biltmore Hotel, where he immediately encounters the vivid hierarchies of this "classless country," and then is drafted into the army and is sent to Germany to train dogs and type reports. It is Frank's incomparable voice -- his uncanny humor and his astonishing ear for dialogue -- that renders these experiences spellbinding.

When Frank returns to America in 1953, he...
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Angela's Ashes a memoir of a childhood

By: McCourt, Frank

Price: $3.99

Publisher: New York, Touchstone: 1996

Seller ID: 2006

ISBN: 0684874350

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

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 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 a...
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Author:McCourt, Frank

Angela's Ashes a memoir

'Tis a memoir

Angela's Ashes a memoir of a childhood