ANGELA'S ASHES. A MEMOIR
by McCOURT, Frank
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in a Fine dustwrapper
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
McCourt admired Edward Dahlberg's superb autobiography BECAUSE I WAS FLESH and modeled his own ANGELA'S ASHES after it, both writers casting their mothers as the central characters. Both emerged from impoverished childhoods to achieve success, though Dahlberg's was critical rather than financial. Dahlberg was dead when ANGELA'S ASHES was published in 1996, but his former wife, R'lene Dahlberg, was alive. She was the first person to encourage McCourt to publish his work and stated in a private note that she "got him his first publication- called 'If you live in a lane.'"
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- Bookseller
- Charles Agvent (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018606
- Title
- ANGELA'S ASHES. A MEMOIR
- Author
- McCOURT, Frank
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in a Fine dustwrapper
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Place of Publication
- (New York)
- Date Published
- (1996)
- Keywords
- Signed, Pulitzer Prize, Modern Firsts, Frank McCourt, Ireland, Memoirs, Autobiography, Irish Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Inscribed; Association Copy;
Terms of Sale
Charles Agvent
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