Format:
Book
Author:
McCourt, Frank.
Title:
Angela's ashes : a memoir / Frank McCourt.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Scribner, ©1996.
Description:
364 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary:
"My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and I was born. Instead, they returned to Ireland when I was four ... 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 memoir of Frank McCourt, raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland in the 1930s and 40s. The author chronicles his impoverished childhood and early experiences in the Catholic church, and describes his father's alcoholism and talent for storytelling, as well as the challenges and tragedies his mother faced, balancing painful memories with humor.
Subjects:
McCourt family.
McCourt, Frank -- Family.
Irish Americans -- Biography.
Irish Americans -- Ireland -- Limerick (Limerick) -- Biography.
Limerick (Limerick, Ireland) -- Biography.
Genre:
Autobiographies.
Notes:
Sequel: 'Tis.
Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.9 23.0 19777.
Reading Counts RC High School 10. 33 Quiz: 49568.
Pulitzer Prize, Biography, 1997.
LCCN:
96005335
ISBN:
0684874350
9780684874357
9780684842677
068484267X
9781568953960
1568953968
0613103572
9780613103572
0684872153
9780684872155
0684874350
Other Number:
34284265
System Availability:
4
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
4
Control Number:
47786
Call Number:
BIO McCourt
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
2
# System items in:
2