Bought this at a library book sale ages ago. I wanted to read it, but I no longer have a cassette player in my car and others get priority. I still want this to go to a good home!

A new classic.

Abridged
4.5 hours
4 cassettes

Sending this out to a fellow BookCrosser. Enjoy!

Received this the other day as part of a giant RABCK from KateKintail in Virginia. Thank you! I've actually already read this one, so I'll try to release it ASAP.

Here's a synopsis of the book:

"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. 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."

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 does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story.

Perhaps it is a story that accounts for Frank's survival. Wearing shoes repaired with tires, begging a pig's head for Christmas dinner, and searching the pubs for his father, Frank endures poverty, near-starvation and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors -- yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance and remarkable forgiveness.

Imbued with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion -- and movingly read in his own voice -- Angela's Ashes is a glorious audiobook that bears all the marks of a classic.

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Reserved for my Audiobook VBB.

Oops - he wasn't picked. I'll offer him as a RABCK next.

Released to keno-mom in Texas, to be read & then passed to v8cars in Australia. Happy travels, little book!

I loved this book, I'm reserving it for trip across the ocean to Australia.

For audio cassette box for friend in Australia