Angela's Ashes

McCourt, Frank

Published by New York: Scribner, 1996

About this Item

Uncorrected proof copy. Signed by McCourt in black ink on the title page. Publisher's pictorial paper wrappers, with a photograph of a barefooted street child to the front panel, gold spine lettered in black. Near fine, with some light wear to the extremities, bright and clean interior. Overall, a bright and fresh copy. Angela's Ashes is Frank McCourt's Pulitzer Prize winning memoir about his childhood in Limerick, Ireland, where he lived in poverty. A masterful account of the Irish struggle to find happiness and success in a harsh environment, Angela's Ashes at once tells an extremely sad story that is softened by McCourt's humor, determination, and compassion that is apparent throughout the text. As he writes at the beginning, "When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how I survived 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." The plot culminates with McCourt's young adulthood after he immigrated to the United States and arrived in Poughkeepsie, New York. In 1999, McCourt published a sequel to Angela's Ashes entitled 'Tis. Seller Inventory # FMCT

Bibliographic Details

Title: Angela's Ashes

Publisher: New York: Scribner

Publication Date: 1996

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Signed by Author