Frank McCourt put his mother's name in the title of this bestselling memoir
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Angela's Ashes: Frank McCourt: 9780743581493: Amazon.com ...  Editorial Reviews. Amazon.com Review. "Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the ... So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era .... and his three year-old brother Malachy, who bears the same name as his father, and ... The most poignant emotions are from Frankie's mother Angela.
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Frank McCourt put his mother's name in the title of this bestselling ...  Jeopardy Question: NONFICTION - Frank McCourt put his mother's name in the title of this bestselling memoir.
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Frank McCourt - Wikipedia  Francis "Frank" McCourt (August 19, 1930  July 19, 2009) was an Irish-American teacher and writer. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his book, Angela's Ashes, a tragicomic memoir of ... Frank McCourt lived in New York with his parents and four younger siblings: Malachy, born in ... It was a bestseller and made him a millionaire.
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Frank McCourt dies at 78; late-blooming author of 'Angela's Ashes ...  Jul 20, 2009 ... The Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir of his grim childhood in an Irish slum was written ... Frank McCourt called Angela's Ashes, his tale of growing up in grinding ... memories of his grim, poverty-stricken childhood in Ireland to write the Pulitzer ... McCourt's long-suffering mother -- the Angela of the book's title...
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Frank McCourt, Whose Irish Childhood Illuminated His Prose, Is ...  Jul 19, 2009 ... After his alcoholic father abandoned the family, his mother  the Angela of the title  begged on the streets of ... Both, although best sellers, did not achieve anything like the ... Three of Mr. McCourt's six siblings died in early childhood. ... write, motivated Mr. McCourt to undertake his childhood memoirs...
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Angela's Ashes - Shmoop  Struggling with Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes? ... Our boy Frank McCourt, a kid from the slums of Limerick who suffers from starvation and ... published in 1996, about growing up in Ireland during the Great Depression and WWII. ... And he ends up winning the Pulitzer Prize for his memoir of this miserable childhood.
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Obituary: Frank McCourt, 78, recounted grim childhood in best-seller ...  Jul 19, 2009 ... It also won the Pulitzer for biography and the National Book Critics Circle Award for ... The family lived in Limerick -- in "one of the juiciest slums this side of ... Joyce period, studied and affected," he told the New York Times in 1997. ... "We were all storytellers growing up," McCourt said of his family in a 2000...
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SparkNotes: Angela's Ashes: Chapter I  A summary of Chapter I in Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes. ... Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, ... Frank then backtracks and tells the story of his mother and father's lives before the birth of their children. ... the two books, Angela's Ashes and 'Tis, were supposed to be one book.
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Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt - ThinkCERCA  Angela's Ashes is Frank McCourt's memoir of his childhood in Brooklyn, New ... Frank talks in gritty detail about being brought up in extreme poverty and with an ... Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1997, and the Boeke Prize in 1997.
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Free Flashcards about NONFICTION - StudyStack  IN 1997 THIS MEMOIR BY FRANK MCCOURT BURNT UP THE NONFICTION CHARTS, ANGELA'S ASHES. THIS AUTO EXECUTIVE'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY...
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A miserable liar? Angela's Ashes inspired a new literary genre - but ...  Jul 21, 2009 ... Did he win the Pulitzer Prize with his lyrical, poignant memoir under false pretences? ... of Limerick's slums to rise like a phoenix from the ashes, triumphant? ... he was four from New York to Ireland, against the tide of Irish emigration. ... who grew up within 200 yards of McCourt's house, says that if McCourt...
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Mia Farrow's Story: On Frank Sinatra, Battling Scandal, and Raising ...  She lost her virginity to Frank Sinatra and married him when she was 21 and he was 50. ... The mother of 14 childrenranging in age from 43 to 1910 of whom were ... in detail the isolation and fear she felt then in her best-selling 1997 memoir, .... Ronan is writing a book on America's proxy wars, but he also writes songs...
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Angela's Ashes - Wikipedia  Angela's Ashes: A Memoir is a 1996 memoir by the Irish author Frank McCourt. The memoir ... The book was published in 1996, and won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for ... To make up for his father's failure to support the family, Frank starts working as ... after they take a hatchet to the walls of their rented home to burn the wood for...
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Uncommon Knowledge: Judy Lewis: 9780671700195: Amazon.com ...  Editorial Reviews. From Publishers Weekly. Born in 1935, Lewis was a mother herself when ... A humorous autobiography that traces actor/comedian Joel McHale's rise to stardom. ... Her parents were Loretta Young and Clark Gable. ... In this absorbing memoir Lewis writes without self-pity of her unfulfilled relationship with...
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Angela's Ashes - Wikipedia  Angela's Ashes: A Memoir is a 1996 memoir by the Irish author Frank McCourt. The memoir ... Following this first tragedy, his family moves back to Ireland where Oliver and Eugene die within a year of the family's arrival and where Frank's...
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Jing-mei Woo: The Joy Luck Club - CliffsNotes  "Before I wrote The Joy Luck Club," Tan said in an interview, "my mother told me, ... and soon she enticed the wives to join with her and form a Joy Luck Club. ... In 1967, Tan, her mother Daisy, and her brother John left California for ... her narrative style and her unique voice to the Native American writer Louise Erdrich.