Angela's Ashes (Abridged) Angela's Ashes (Abridged)

Angela's Ashes (Abridged‪)‬

    • 4.2 • 17 Ratings
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Publisher Description

A Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, Angela’s Ashes is Frank McCourt’s masterful memoir of his childhood in Ireland.

“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.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
NARRATOR
FM
Frank McCourt
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
04:33
hr min
RELEASED
1998
April 1
PUBLISHER
Simon & Schuster Audio
SIZE
228.5
MB

Customer Reviews

J Krafft ,

GREAT

Fascinating, this book keep me spellbound. The fact that it is a true story made it all the more interesting. Frank McCourt’s Irish brogue was a special touch. I’m sorry he has passed

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