Angela's Ashes Angela's Ashes

Angela's Ashes

A Memoir

    • 4.4 • 562 Ratings
    • $13.99
    • $13.99

Publisher Description

A Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, Angela’s Ashes is Frank McCourt’s masterful memoir of his childhood in Ireland.

“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.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
1998
December 17
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
368
Pages
PUBLISHER
Scribner
SELLER
Simon & Schuster Digital Sales LLC
SIZE
5.2
MB

Customer Reviews

Amazing 22178 ,

Amazing

Amazing

Seelosen ,

An amazing read

I have read this memoir five or six times. I love the way he finds moments of joy in all this suffering. Before paranoid people started taking books off library shelves, I used to read parts of this to the high school students I taught. Many went out and purchased copies of their own.

yazmeen09 ,

not complete

it didn't let me read the entire book only let me ready chapter one

More Books Like This

Tis Tis
1999
Christmas Around the Village Green Christmas Around the Village Green
2015
Dance for your Daddy Dance for your Daddy
2011
The Other Side of Paradise The Other Side of Paradise
2009
Tales From  A Broad: An Unreliable Memoir Tales From  A Broad: An Unreliable Memoir
2011
The Slippery Year The Slippery Year
2009

More Books by Frank McCourt

Teacher Man Teacher Man
2005
Tis Tis
1999
Las cenizas de Ángela Las cenizas de Ángela
2011
Lo es Lo es
2012
Brothers Brothers
2009
Inventing the Truth Inventing the Truth
1998

Customers Also Bought

The Winter of Our Discontent The Winter of Our Discontent
1982
Anna Karenina Anna Karenina
2001
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
2009
The Short Novels of John Steinbeck The Short Novels of John Steinbeck
2009
It Can't Happen Here It Can't Happen Here
2005
The Cider House Rules The Cider House Rules
2012