Box set Frank McCourt Angela's Ashes and 'Tis HB

Box set Frank McCourt   Angela's Ashes and 'Tis     HB

used and in excellent condition

Image is of actual item.  ISBN 058334805X.  Each book is 6.25 ins x 9.5 ins (16  cms x 24  cms), and 364 and 385 pages respectively.  Published by Ted Smart in 1999.

Angela's Ashes - this is Frank's sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30's and in Ireland in the 40's. 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.  It is a story of courage and survival against apparently overwelming odds.

'Tis - is the story of Frank's American journey from improverished immigrant with rotten teeth, infected eyes and no formal education to brilliant raconteur and schoolteacher.  Saved first by a straying priest, then by the Democratic party, then by the New York University - which admitted him on a trial basis though he had no high school diploma - Frank had the same vulnerable but invincible spirit at nineteen that he had at eight and still has today.

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