Angela's Ashes (Record no. 17854)
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| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 01742nam a2200193 4500 |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 96005335 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780684874357 |
| 024 ## - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER | |
| Standard number or code | 34284265 |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | E184.I6 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 929.2089916 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Frank McCourt |
| 245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Angela's Ashes |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Scribner |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 364 pages |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "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. |
| 521 ## - TARGET AUDIENCE NOTE | |
| Target audience note | 1110 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Memoir |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Copy number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Lake Chapala Society | Lake Chapala Society | 12/28/2023 | LP 929.2 McCO | 43682 | 07/17/2024 | 1 | 07/17/2024 | Book |