{"product_id":"angelas-ashes-a-memoir-9780684842677","title":"Angela's Ashes: A Memoir","description":"A Pulitzer Prize-winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, \u003ci\u003eAngela's Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e is Frank McCourt's masterful memoir of his childhood in Ireland. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePerhaps 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAngela's Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e, imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/25\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780684842677\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Boston Book Review - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2002 pg. 925\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/04\/2009 pg. 48\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/06\/2015 pg. 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader Quiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e19777 \/ Angela's Ashes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 5.9 \/ \u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade \/ \u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 23\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Frank McCourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36639951716508,"sku":"9780684842677","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_06ec54b5-0df3-4adb-8fe4-e9b8bc94b9cb.jpg?v=1603851004","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/angelas-ashes-a-memoir-9780684842677","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}