The Resource Angela's ashes : a memoir, Frank McCourt
Angela's ashes : a memoir, Frank McCourt
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- 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. The author chronicles his impoverished childhood in Limerick, Ireland, in the 1930s and 1940s, describing his father's alcoholism and talent for storytelling; the challenges and tragedies his mother faced, including the loss of three children; and his early experiences in the Catholic church, and balances painful memories with humor
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Angela's ashes : a memoir
- Title
- Angela's ashes : a memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Frank McCourt
- Title variation
- Angelas ashes
- Subject
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- trueLimerick, Ireland
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- trueBooks to movies
- trueChildhood -- Limerick, Ireland -- Personal narratives
- trueChildren of alcoholics -- Limerick, Ireland -- Biography
- trueFamily and Relationships -- Growing Up
- trueGrowing up -- Limerick, Ireland -- Personal narratives
- trueHunger -- Personal narratives
- trueIrish Americans -- Biography
- Irish Americans -- Biography
- Irish Americans -- Ireland | Limerick -- Biography
- trueLife stories -- Relationships | Growing up
- Limerick (Ireland) -- Biography
- McCourt family
- trueMcCourt family
- trueMcCourt, Frank -- Family
- truePoor families -- Limerick, Ireland -- Personal narratives
- truePoverty
- trueAmericans in Ireland -- Biography
- Language
- eng
- 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. The author chronicles his impoverished childhood in Limerick, Ireland, in the 1930s and 1940s, describing his father's alcoholism and talent for storytelling; the challenges and tragedies his mother faced, including the loss of three children; and his early experiences in the Catholic church, and balances painful memories with humor
- Summary
- Born in depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants, Frank McCourt experienced a childhood fraught with poverty and occasional cruelty. McCourt recounts his miserable existence with remarkable exuberance and remarkable forgiveness
- Award
-
- ALA Notable Book, 1997.
- Book Sense Book of the Year Adult Trade, 1997.
- Library Journal Best Books, 1996.
- Biography type
- collective biography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 044075
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- McCourt, Frank
- Dewey number
- 929/.2/0899162073
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- Intended audience
- 1110
- Intended audience source
- Lexile
- LC call number
- E184.I6
- LC item number
- .M117 1996
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile
- 1110
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- McCourt family
- McCourt, Frank
- Irish Americans
- Irish Americans
- Limerick (Ireland)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Angela's ashes : a memoir, Frank McCourt
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 9019312
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 364 pages
- Isbn
- 9780684874357
- Lccn
- 96005335
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocm34284265
- Label
- Angela's ashes : a memoir, Frank McCourt
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 9019312
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 364 pages
- Isbn
- 9780684874357
- Lccn
- 96005335
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocm34284265
Subject
- trueLimerick, Ireland
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- trueBooks to movies
- trueChildhood -- Limerick, Ireland -- Personal narratives
- trueChildren of alcoholics -- Limerick, Ireland -- Biography
- trueFamily and Relationships -- Growing Up
- trueGrowing up -- Limerick, Ireland -- Personal narratives
- trueHunger -- Personal narratives
- trueIrish Americans -- Biography
- Irish Americans -- Biography
- Irish Americans -- Ireland | Limerick -- Biography
- trueLife stories -- Relationships | Growing up
- Limerick (Ireland) -- Biography
- McCourt family
- trueMcCourt family
- trueMcCourt, Frank -- Family
- truePoor families -- Limerick, Ireland -- Personal narratives
- truePoverty
- trueAmericans in Ireland -- Biography
Genre
- trueBooks to movies
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- trueBiography
- trueFamily and Relationships
- trueLife stories
- truePersonal narratives
Included in
- trueLos Angeles Times Book Prizes: Biography
- trueIndies' Choice Book Awards: Adult Fiction
- truePulitzer Prize: Biography or Autobiography
- trueNational Book Critics Circle Award: Biography
- trueLibrary Journal Best Books: 1996
- trueALA Notable Books - Nonfiction: 1997
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