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Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt (1999, Paperback) 
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt (1999, Paperback)

 
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt (1999, Paperback)

Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication Date: 1999-11-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 068487217X
ISBN-13: 9780684872179
Product ID: EPID1605467
Description: After years of teaching creative writing, Frank McCourt published his first book, thus obliging his many friends who had been urging him to write about his childhood--a subject they knew from the many uproarious and affecting stories he ...
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Synopsis
After years of teaching creative writing, Frank McCourt published his first book, thus obliging his many friends who had been urging him to write about his childhood--a subject they knew from the many uproarious and affecting stories he told about it. ANGELA'S ASHES traces the tortuous path of his life from his days in abysmal poverty in Limerick, Ireland, to his arrival in New York as a teenager, eager to start a new life.

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Publication Date:1999-11-01

Size
Length:363 pages
Height:8.5 in
Width:5.0 in
Thickness:0.2 in
Weight:15.2 oz

Publisher's Note
The author recounts his childhood in Depression-era Brooklyn as the child of Irish immigrants who decide to return to worse poverty in Ireland when his infant sister dies.

Industry Reviews
"For the most part, his style is that of an Irish-American raconteur, honorably voluble and engaging. He is aware of his charm but doesn't disgracefully linger upon it. Induced by potent circumstances, he has told his story, and memorable it is."
New York Times Book Review - Denis Donoghue (09/15/1996)

"An extraordinary work in every way. McCourt magically retrieves love, dignity, and humor from a childhood of hunger, loss, and pain."
Kirkus Reviews (07/01/1996)

"Unguarded and stunningly unpretentious, ANGELA'S ASHES creeps up on you with all the ghostlike force of a winter afternoon in Ireland....A story so immediate--so gripping in its daily despairs, stolen smokes, and blessed humor--that you want to thank God young Frankie McCourt survived it in part so he could write the book."
Boston Globe - Gail Caldwell

"The most gloriously unwholesome memoir of the year has to be ANGELA'S ASHES. The tale of an Irish childhood blighted by poverty, drink, violence, panic and despair and blessed by an author with a huge sense of the ridiculous plus the ability to forgive everyone, even himself. Give 'Angela' to anyone who loves a roaring story in language so fresh it sometimes comes as a shock to the system."
Washington Post Book World - Rebecca Pepper Sinkler (11/24/1996)

"Frank McCourt...waited more than four decades to tell the story of his childhood, and it's been well worth the wait. With ANGELA'S ASHES he has used the storytelling gifts he inherited from his father to write a book that redeems the pain of his early years with wit and compassion and grace. He has written a book that stands...as a classic modern memoir."
New York Times - Michiko Kakutani (09/17/1996)

"...[W]hat is most remarkable is that he has managed to reenter his boyhood self so completely, while maintaining a quiet, sardonic, authorial distance from his early life, which gives ANGELA'S ASHES its rigor and power. Whatever scars McCourt bears from his childhood, they are not exorcised here. Only someone who has successfully battled with his demons could have crafted such a compelling work of art out of his own pain."
Los Angeles Times Book Review - Mary M. Morrissey (09/29/1996)

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      Soft Cover Memoir Book Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt
    Review created: 09/14/06
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    14 of 15 people found this review helpful.

    This is a very touching book about what life was truly like in Ireland back in the 30's, 40's. Does touch a bit on the US ,but not much ,as most of the book is spent during the time Frank grew up in Ireland. I knew living conditions & poverty were bad back then, but to really read from a first hand tale is very eye opening.

    After you are done with the book you want there to be more and so there is....his second book is good too, but that is another review!


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