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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Touchstone Books
Publication date
November 1, 1999
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780684872155
ISBN-10
0684872153
Dimensions
1 by 4.25 by 7 in.
Weight
0.45 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$7.99
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
'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.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
Editions
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
from Touchstone Books (November 1, 1999); titled "Angela's Ashes"
9780684872155 | details & prices | 4.25 × 7.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $7.99
About: 'When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all.
About: 'When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all.
Large print edition from Wheeler Pub Inc (November 1, 1999); titled "Angela's Ashes"
9781568959634 | details & prices | 6.50 × 9.00 × 1.25 in. | 1.70 lbs | List price $11.95
About: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.
About: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.
CD/Spoken Word
With Frank McCourt |
Abridged edition from Simon & Schuster (March 10, 2009); titled "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir"
9780743581493 | details & prices | 5.00 × 6.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.28 lbs | List price $14.99
This edition also contains Angela's Ashes, Angela's Ashes
This edition also contains Angela's Ashes, Angela's Ashes
Cassette/Spoken Word
Unabridged edition from Simon & Schuster Audioworks (October 1, 1997); titled "Angela's Ashes"
9780671580377 | details & prices | 5.50 × 7.00 × 2.25 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $50.00
About: 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.
About: 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.
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