{"title":"Frank McCourt","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrank McCourt’s writing invites readers into deeply personal landscapes shaped by memory and hardship. His works, rooted in \u003cem\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Memoir\u003c\/em\u003e, offer candid reflections on family, identity, and the enduring human spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a distinctive voice that balances humour and poignancy, McCourt captures the texture of life’s challenges and triumphs. His storytelling resonates beyond individual experience, illuminating broader themes within \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"angelas-ashes-by-frank-mccourt-9780007205233","title":"Angela’s Ashes","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStunning reissue of the phenomenal worldwide bestseller: Frank McCourt's sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAngela's Ashes\u003c\/em\u003e is Frank McCourt's sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s. It is a story of extreme hardship and suffering, in Brooklyn tenements and Limerick slums — too many children, too little money, his mother Angela barely coping as his father Malachy's drinking bouts constantly brought the family to the brink of disaster.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a story of courage and survival against apparently overwhelming odds. 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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.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps it is story that accounts for Frank's survival. 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It went on to sell over ten million copies and won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrank McCourt was suddenly an internationally celebrated memoirist, a writer who had invigorated the genre. But most readers didn't know that \u003cem\u003eAngela's Ashes\u003c\/em\u003e wasn't Frank's first published writing. For years, he and his actor brother Malachy contributed a column to a neighbourhood newspaper called \u003cem\u003eThe West Side Spirit\u003c\/em\u003e. Malachy, himself a bestselling writer, also contributed to \u003cem\u003eOur Town, Irish America\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Southampton Review\u003c\/em\u003e. And Frank went on to write for prominent publications including \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker, The New York Times, Esquire, Life,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSez I to Myself\u003c\/em\u003e collects the best of those essays and works of journalism. Here the brothers McCourt tackle parades and pubs, classrooms and churches, the immigrant experience, loss, 9\/11, the writing life, and more. 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