Crockett, CA
Details
- Dimensions
- 1.25ʺW × 6.5ʺD × 9.5ʺH
- Styles
- Contemporary
- Period
- 1990s
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
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- Materials
- Paper
- Textile
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Brown
- Condition Notes
- Very good; light wear commensurate with age and use (e.g. gently bumped extremities, faint coffee stain at center of long … moreVery good; light wear commensurate with age and use (e.g. gently bumped extremities, faint coffee stain at center of long leaf edge, strong spine/tight binding, clean covers and text. A nice copy. less
- Description
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Title: Angela's Ashes.
Author: Frank McCourt.
Publisher: Scribner.
Publication date: Copyright 1996.
Origin: New York, NY, USA.
Edition/printing: First edition/64th … more Title: Angela's Ashes.
Author: Frank McCourt.
Publisher: Scribner.
Publication date: Copyright 1996.
Origin: New York, NY, USA.
Edition/printing: First edition/64th printing.
Description: 562 p. 8vo. Author signed at title page. Publisher's 1/4 burgundy cloth hardcover, gilt title on spine cover, brown paper covered boards, matte color illustrated dust jacket under mylar protective cover.
Measures: 1.25 W x 6.5 D x 9.5 H inches.
About the author and work: "Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood," writes Frank McCourt in his now-bestselling first memoir, Angela's Ashes. "Worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." Welcome, then, to the pinnacle of the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. Born in Brooklyn in 1930 to recent Irish immigrants Malachy and Angela McCourt, Frank grew up in Limerick after his parents returned to Ireland because of poor prospects in America. It turns out that prospects weren't so great back in the old country either--not with Malachy for a father. A chronically unemployed and nearly unemployable alcoholic, he appears to be the model on which many of our more insulting clichés about drunken Irish manhood are based. Mix in abject poverty and frequent death and illness, and you have all the makings of a truly difficult early life.
With 'Tis, the 1999 sequel to Angela's Ashes, McCourt picks up the story in October 1949, upon his arrival in America. Back on American soil, this awkward 19-year-old, with his "pimply face, sore eyes, and bad teeth," has little in common with the healthy, self-assured college students he sees on the subway and dreams of joining in the classroom. Initially, his American experience is as harrowing as his impoverished youth in Ireland, including two of the grimmest Christmases ever described in literature. McCourt views the U.S. through the same sharp eye and with the same dark humor that distinguished his first memoir: race prejudice, casual cruelty, and dead-end jobs weigh on his spirits as he searches for a way out. A glimpse of hope comes from the army, where he acquires some white-collar skills, and from New York University, which admits him without a high school diploma. But the journey toward his position teaching creative writing at Stuyvesant High School is neither quick nor easy. Fortunately, McCourt's openness in both books to every variety of human emotion and longing is exceptional; even the most damaged, difficult people he encounters are richly rendered individuals with whom the reader can't help but feel uncomfortable kinship. less
Crockett, CA
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