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Angela's Ashes (MMP)

A Memoir

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| Paperback | 9780684872155

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Now a major motion picture from Paramount and Universal Pictures International.

The #1 national bestseller. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and the ABBY Award.

"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to surviContinue

Now a major motion picture from Paramount and Universal Pictures International.

The #1 national bestseller. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and the ABBY Award.

"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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  • 3 people find this helpful

    This book has touched me like few others...

    An incredibly strong memoir... this is a one of a kind book... and definitely one of my favourites.
    It carries you through a childhood of extreme poverty, but also of strength and accomplishments.
    Heart wrenching, tender, hilarious and extremely moving
    You will find it terribly difficult to put down ... (continue)

    An incredibly strong memoir... this is a one of a kind book... and definitely one of my favourites.
    It carries you through a childhood of extreme poverty, but also of strength and accomplishments.
    Heart wrenching, tender, hilarious and extremely moving
    You will find it terribly difficult to put down
    I highly recommend it.

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    mariabei said on Mar 10, 2010 | 1 feedback

  • 2 people find this helpful

    A beautiful memoir

    Frank McCourt is an amazing storyteller! It's funny, heartbreaking, and charming all at once. Meaningful books like this are rare, so do yourself a favor and give it a try. It's sure to inspire and change your life!

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    Moirne Stark said on Jun 23, 2008 | Add your feedback

  • 1 person find this helpful

    Feeling poverty

    I don't think I can waist food any more.

    It's incredible how, despite the distress and the lack of everything, there's still a loving feeling in Frankie for all his family.

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    fran_ces said on Apr 4, 2011 | Add your feedback

  • Who says that poverty can't be fun? This memoir is very humorous and touching at most times. A novel that will make people realize how fortunate we can be compared to others. Frank McCourt has an accomplished life and life story.

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    harrypotpot said on May 9, 2011 | Add your feedback

  • One of those book wont make you sleep. While you are crying for the tough destiny of this family you find yourself smiling at the way an innocent kid tell the story. When it was over I missed it for a while...

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    jaahbaba said on Feb 27, 2011 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • When I started reading this, I was feeling extremely blue. And from the very first page, I thought this isn't the right time to read this. This is too gloomy for me now, I need something to cheer me up. But for some reason I kept reading. I'm now half through and it doesn't seem it will get any bett ... (continue)

    When I started reading this, I was feeling extremely blue. And from the very first page, I thought this isn't the right time to read this. This is too gloomy for me now, I need something to cheer me up. But for some reason I kept reading. I'm now half through and it doesn't seem it will get any better. But I guess what has kept me going so far is the thought that I'm not so gloomy, I'm not having such a bad time. I thank Allah for what I have.

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    Khadijah said on Jan 13, 2011 | Add your feedback

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