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"A Pulitzer Prize-winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, Angela's Ashes is Frank McCourt's masterful memoir of his childhood in Ireland.&#8220;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.&#8221; 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&#8217;s mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank&#8217;s father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy&#8212;exasperating, irresponsible, and beguiling&#8212;does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Frank lives for his father&#8217;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&#8217;s survival. Wearing rags for diapers, begging a pig&#8217;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&#8212;yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance, and remarkable forgiveness.Angela&#8217;s Ashes, imbued on every page with Frank McCourt&#8217;s astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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