01958cam a2200349 a 4500 3008179 AU-EpEBC 20150227121500.0 960214s1996 nyua 000 0ceng 96005335 9780002558129 3008179 DLC eng DLC DLC OrLoB-B e-ie--- n-us--- E184.I6 M117 1996 929/.2/0899162073 20 EW McCourt, Frank. Angela's ashes : a memoir / Frank McCourt. Special Australian trade paperback ed. London, UK : HarperCollins Publishers, c1996. 364 p. : pbk ; 25 cm. Sequel: 'Tis. "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. McCourt family. McCourt, Frank Family. Irish Americans Biography. Irish Americans Ireland Limerick (Limerick) Biography. Limerick (Limerick, Ireland) Biography. Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/simon033/96005335.html ddc 45373 45373 0 0 ddc 0 0 General Reading MAIN MAIN OS 2015-02-27 Donated by Claire Ellingford, 2015. 20.00 0 GR/MAC/Angela's 15304 2015-02-27 00:00:00 1 50.00 2015-02-27 AM