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Angela's ashes : a memoir

McCourt, Frank (Author).

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.

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  • ISBN: 0684874350
  • ISBN: 9780684874357
  • Physical Description: print
    364 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Scribner, c1996.

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General Note:
Sequel: 'Tis.
Subject: Irish Americans Biography
Irish Americans Ireland Limerick (Limerick) Biography
McCourt family
McCourt, Frank Family
Limerick (Limerick, Ireland) Biography
McCourt, Frank Famille
McCourt, Frank Enfance et jeunesse
Américains d'origine irlandaise Biographies
Limerick (Irlande : Comté) Histoire
Limerick (Irlande : Comté) Biographies

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lummi Library BIO MCCO MCCO 1999 252758 Biography Available -

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