LoginAngela's Ashes: A Memoir
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"Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood," writes Frank McCourt in Angela's Ashes. "Worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." Welcome, then, to the pinnacle of the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. Born in Brooklyn in 1930 to recent Irish immigrants Malachy and Angela McCourt, Frank grew up in Limerick after his parents returned to Ireland because of poor prospects in America. It turns out that prospects weren't so great back in the old country either--not with Malachy for a father. A chronically unemployed and nearly unemployable alcoholic,
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Manufacturer: Scribner
Release date: 25 May 1999
ISBN-10 : 068484267X | ISBN-13: 9780684842677
Release date: 25 May 1999
ISBN-10 : 068484267X | ISBN-13: 9780684842677
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