00000cam a22000004i 4500 UP-1685594773861831701 Buklod 20110503135521.0 g||| | || || v| |||||| 151116s1996 nyu er |000 0|eng d 0684874350 (hbk.) (iLib)UPBAG-00008390229 DLC BAG rda eng E 184 I6 M32 McCourt, Frank author. Angela's ashes a memoir Frank McCourt. New York Scribner ©1996. 364 pages illustrations 25 cm Sequel: 'Tis. "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. McCourt family. McCourt, Frank Family. Irish Americans Biography. Irish Americans Ireland Limerick (Limerick) Biography. Limerick (Limerick, Ireland) Biography. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN E 184 I6 M32 Book