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02520aim a2200373 a 4500 001 1285D026DE6B11DF9C83A1F56AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20101023010128 008 100815s2005 000 0 eng u 020 $a 9780743595117 020 $a 0743595114 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)\9780743595117 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) 040 $a TEFOD $d SILO 100 1 $a McCourt, Frank. 245 1 $a Angela's ashes [electronic resource] $c by Frank McCourt. 260 $a New York $b Simon & Schuster Audio $c 2005. 300 $a Mode of access: $b World Wide Web. Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 214522 KB; $c MP3 file size: 419883 KB). 500 $a Downloadable audio file. 500 $a Duration: 14:55:31. 500 $a Title from: Title details screen. 500 $a Unabridged. 511 0 $a Read by Frank McCourt. 520 $a "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. 650 $a Audiobooks. 650 $a Irish Americans $x Biography. 650 $a Irish Americans $x Biography. $x Limerick (Limerick) $x Biography. 650 $a Limerick (Limerick, Ireland) $x Biography. 650 $a McCourt family. 650 $a McCourt, Frank $x Family. 650 $a McCourt, Frank. 856 $u http://wilbor.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=DF893D17-E7B1-4578-A02E-8A052E7E9903 $3 URL 941 $a 2 952 $l GUPF501 $d 20111119011201.0 952 $l XBPE737 $d 20101023011157.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1285D026DE6B11DF9C83A1F56AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search