Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt - 1996

Nice First Edition, Fourth Printing, pages are clean, crisp, sharp, binding tight. Cover boards fine, near fine or better dust jacket, minimal shelf wear, original owners bookplate on front green end paper. A fresh copy, that appears unread

--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.