{"product_id":"2940170566754","title":"Angela's Ashes","description":"\u003ci\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSo 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. \u003cbr\u003ePerhaps 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. \u003cbr\u003eImbued with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion -- and movingly read in his own voice -- \u003ci\u003eAngela's Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e is a glorious audiobook that bears all the marks of a classic.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47117425180912,"sku":"2940170566754","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170566754_p0.jpg?v=1763712531","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170566754","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}