Angela's ashes : a memoir
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New York : Scribner, 2003.
ISBN
9780684842677, 068484267X, 9780684874357, 0684874350
Lexile measure
1110L
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Nonfiction
305.89162 MCC
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Published
New York : Scribner, 2003.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
363 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780684842677, 068484267X, 9780684874357, 0684874350
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 5.9, 23 Points
Lexile measure
1110

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"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize"--Cover.
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"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.
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1110L,Lexile
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Accelerated Reader AR,UG,5.9,23.0,19777.
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader AR,UG,5.9,23,19777.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

McCourt, F. (2003). Angela's ashes: a memoir (First Scribner trade paperback edition.). Scribner.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

McCourt, Frank. 2003. 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, 2003.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

McCourt, Frank. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir First Scribner trade paperback edition., Scribner, 2003.

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