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ANGELA'S ASHES

by Frank McCourt

TRUE U.S. 1st EDITION w/ full number line  

1996

Published by Scribner

Un-clipped DJ present showing original price of $23.00

Scibner, 1996. For your interest is a 1st edition with full number line showing 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2, stated on copyright page. Previous owner personal sticker on front endpaper, else no writings of any kind. 364 mildly age-toned, well bound, crisp and VERY clean pp. Staining to outside page edges. NO torn, loose or missing pages. Dark green endpapers. Hinges are in great condition. Book shows mil corner bumping. DJ present in wonderful condition showing some shelfwear and edgewear and original price on front flap of $23.00. Jacket is bright in its renowned photographic fashion.  Splendid copy of a true first edition of the memoirs which was made into a movie of the same name. Any questions, please ask and I will have more photos available upon request!

"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. Perhaps it is story that accounts for Frank's survival. Wearing rags for diapers, begging a pig'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 -- yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance and remarkable forgiveness. ANGELA'S ASHES, imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic."

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