Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

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Cover Art for 9780743550925, Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
ISBN: 9780743550925
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Published: 30 November, 2005
Format: Audiobook
Language: English
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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 does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Perhaps it is a story that accounts for Frank s survival. Wearing rags for diapers, begging a pig s head for Christmas dinner, and searching the pubs for his father, 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. Imbued with Frank McCourt s astounding humor and compassion -- and movingly read in his own voice -- Angela s Ashes is a glorious audiobook that bears all the marks of a classic.

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