Angela's ashes : a memoir
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Published
New York : Scribner, [2003, c1996].
Edition
1st Scribner trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
363 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
1110L
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Fulton Co PL - Fulton Library - Nonfiction | 920 MCC | On Shelf |
LaGrange Co PL - LaGrange Main Library - Adult: Biography | B McC | On Shelf |
Lebanon PL - Lebanon - Adult - Non-Fiction | 929.2 BIOGRAPHY MCCOURT | On Shelf |
Lowell PL - Lowell - Adult Biography | B MCCOUR | On Shelf |
North Webster Comm. PL - North Webster - Adult Nonfiction | 92 MCC | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : Scribner, [2003, c1996].
Format
Book
Edition
1st Scribner trade pbk. ed.
Language
English
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 5.9, 23 Points
Level 5.9, 23 Points
Lexile measure
1110
Notes
General Note
"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize"--Cover.
Description
"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.
Target Audience
1110,Lexile.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
McCourt, F. (20031996). Angela's ashes: a memoir (1st Scribner trade pbk. ed.). Scribner.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)McCourt, Frank. 20031996. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir. Scribner.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)McCourt, Frank. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir Scribner, 20031996.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)McCourt, Frank. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1st Scribner trade pbk. ed., Scribner, 20031996.
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