a memoir McCourt, Frank. creator text biography nyu London, UK HarperCollins Publishers c1996 1996 Special Australian trade paperback ed. monographic eng

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364 p. : pbk ; 25 cm. "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. Frank McCourt. Sequel: 'Tis. e-ie--- n-us--- McCourt family McCourt, Frank Family Irish Americans Biography Irish Americans Ireland Limerick (Limerick) Biography Limerick (Limerick, Ireland) Biography E184.I6 M117 1996 929/.2/0899162073 9780002558129 96005335 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/simon033/96005335.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/simon033/96005335.html DLC 960214 20150227121500.0 3008179 eng