The Resource Angela's ashes : a memoir, Frank McCourt
Angela's ashes : a memoir, Frank McCourt
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- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 364 pages
- Note
- Sequel: 'Tis
- Isbn
- 9780684874357
- Label
- Angela's ashes : a memoir
- Title
- Angela's ashes
- Title remainder
- a memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Frank McCourt
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Awards note
- National Book Critics Circle Award (Biography), 1996.
- Biography type
- collective biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- McCourt, Frank
- Dewey number
- 929/.2/0899162073
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- E184.I6
- LC item number
- M117 1996
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- McCourt family
- McCourt, Frank
- Irish Americans
- Irish Americans
- Limerick (Limerick, Ireland)
- Label
- Angela's ashes : a memoir, Frank McCourt
- Link
- Note
- Sequel: 'Tis
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- text
- still image
- Content type code
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- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 364 pages
- Isbn
- 9780684874357
- Lccn
- 96005335
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocm34284265
- Label
- Angela's ashes : a memoir, Frank McCourt
- Link
- Note
- Sequel: 'Tis
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 364 pages
- Isbn
- 9780684874357
- Lccn
- 96005335
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocm34284265
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