a ISBN 0-684-84267X (pbk.-)

a ISBN 978-06-84842677 (pbk.-)

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Classification number E184.I6

b Item number .M117 1996

a Dewey Classification 920

a Personal name McCourt, Frank.

a Title Angela's ashes :

b Remainder of title a memoir /

c Statement of responsibility, etc Frank McCourt.

h Medium BOOK

a Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Scribner,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 1996.

a Extent 363 p. :

b Other physical details ill. ;

c Dimensions 22 cm

a Summary, etc "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.

a Awards note Pulitizer Prize winner for biography

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Irish Americans

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Irish Americans