Angela and the Baby Jesus - Hardcover

McCourt, Frank

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1416574700 ISBN 13: 9781416574705

Publisher: Scribner, 2007

Synopsis

When my mother, Angela, was six years old, she felt sorry for the Baby Jesus in the Christmas crib at St. Joseph's Church near School House Lane where she lived....

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Frank McCourt's Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Angela's Ashes is a modern classic. Now he has written a captivating Christmas story about Angela as a child -- often cold and hungry herself -- compelled to rescue the Baby Jesus and take him home. This story is pure McCourt -- genuine, irreverent and moving.

It is elegantly illustrated by two-time Golden Kite Award winner Loren Long and is the perfect Christmas story for all ages.

About this title

Product Description:

Rare Book

Review:

Praise for ‘Teacher Man’:
‘McCourt has a compulsion to tell us the story of his life, but he does it so well – modulating beautifully from ventriloquistically exact repro teen-speak to rhapsodic meditations on his midlife crisis – that one couldn’t possibly want him to stop. I wish I could have been in one of his classes.’ Sunday Times

‘This memoir about teaching is unlike any other I have read: relatively mundane events and incidents shine against that backdrop of that pathetic, abused child.’ Francis Gilbert, Sunday Telegraph

Praise for ‘Angela’s Ashes’:
'An astonishing book…completely mesmerising – you can open it almost at random and find writing to make you gasp.' Independent

Praise for ‘Tis’:
'Few will be able to resist this pacey and fluent sequel…McCourt's gift lies not simply in having lived through interesting times, but in having developed his skills as an editor and narrator to produce two fine, funny and moving slices of a past that is not simply Ireland's, but everyone's.' Guardian

About this edition

• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1416574700
• ISBN 13: 9781416574705
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Long Loren