Angela's Ashes: Book Guide, Author and Facts
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"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. in the 1930s and 40s. 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
Quick facts about Angela's Ashes
- Title: Angela's Ashes
- Author: Frank McCourt
- First published: 1996
- Genre: irish americans, irlandeses-americanos, family
- OpenLibrary ID: OL27634W
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What is Angela's Ashes about?
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all.
Who wrote Angela's Ashes?
Angela's Ashes was written by Frank McCourt.
When was Angela's Ashes published?
Angela's Ashes was first published in 1996.
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