Angela's ashes: a memoir
(Book)
Author:
Published:
New York : Scribner, c1996.
Physical Desc:
363 pages : ill. ; 25 cm.
Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure:
1110L
Status:
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.
"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.
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Location
Call Number
Status
Colusa Main Branch Adult Collection
B McCOURT M
On Shelf
Folsom Adult
929.2MCC 1996
Due May 1, 2024
Grimes Branch Library Adult Collection
929.2 McCourt M
On Shelf
Maxwell Branch Library Adult Collection
929.2 McCourt F
On Shelf
Princeton Branch Library Adult Collection
929.2 McCourt M
On Shelf
Sutter County Main Branch
929.9 MCC
Due Apr 30, 2024
Williams Branch Library Adult Collection
929.2 McCourt M
On Shelf
Woodland Public Library
BIOGRAPHY McCourt 1996
On Holdshelf
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Format:
Book
Language:
English
ISBN:
0684874350 :, 068487217x (pbk.)
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 5.9, 23 Points
Level 5.9, 23 Points
Lexile measure:
1110
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APA Citation (style guide)
McCourt, F. (1996). Angela's ashes: a memoir. New York, Scribner.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)McCourt, Frank. 1996. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir. New York, Scribner.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)McCourt, Frank, Angela's Ashes: A Memoir. New York, Scribner, 1996.
MLA Citation (style guide)McCourt, Frank. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir. New York, Scribner, 1996.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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