{"id":9791,"date":"2024-01-05T15:13:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T08:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turn-books.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=9791"},"modified":"2024-03-29T22:19:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T15:19:19","slug":"angelas-ashes","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/turn-books.com\/index.php\/product\/angelas-ashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Angela&#8217;s Ashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning memoir. \u201cWhen 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank\u2019s father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy\u2014exasperating, irresponsible, and beguiling\u2014does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Frank lives for his father\u2019s tales of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies.<\/p>\n<p>Book Review: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1996\/09\/17\/books\/generous-memories-of-a-poor-painful-childhood.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1996\/09\/17\/books\/generous-memories-of-a-poor-painful-childhood.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/turn-books.com\/index.php\/terms-and-conditions\/#turn-books-condition-rating-scale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Condition &#8211; Time Worn (2\/5)<\/strong><\/a><\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/turn-books.com\/index.php\/terms-and-conditions\/#turn-books-condition-rating-scale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8994\" src=\"https:\/\/turn-books.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2_star.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"31\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12568,"template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"product_cat":[507,117],"product_tag":[613],"class_list":{"0":"post-9791","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-life-writing","7":"product_cat-non-fiction","8":"product_tag-memoir","9":"pa_book-author-frank-mccourt","10":"pa_publisher-scribner","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/turn-books.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/9791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/turn-books.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/turn-books.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turn-books.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/turn-books.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turn-books.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=9791"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turn-books.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=9791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}