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ANGELA'S ASHES - FRANK MCCOURT - EASTON PRESS - SIGNED
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** Angela's Ashes ** Pulitzer Prize winning - Frank McCourt - Easton Press Collector's Signed Edition Genuine Leather Includes Certificate of Authenticity and Publisher notes FINE - As New Never Read - Satin Page Marker unmoved from publisher's placement No writings, stamps, or nameplates from previous ownership Offering from a pet- and smoke-free home. I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food. - Frank McCourt"F. Scott Fitzgerald said there are no second acts in American lives," said Frank McCourt. "I think I've proved him wrong." Although he always wanted to write, and received considerable encouragement while he attended New York University on the G.I. Bill, Frank McCourt lacked the confidence to become a professional writer. Instead, he spent 27 years teaching Creative Writing in New York's public high schools. Although he had not published a book, McCourt never stopped writing or making notes about his childhood and teen years growing up in Limerick, Ireland. It was only after he retired in the 1990's from a career of teaching writing that McCourt found his own voice. "When I look back on my childhood I wondered how I managed to survive at all," wrote McCourt in Angela's Ashes , which appeared in 1996. "It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while." Indeed, it was a life of astonishing destitution, deprivation, disease, and death, as the improvidence of McCourt's "loquacious alcoholic father" Malachy forced his desperate wife Angela to beg to feed her family. But Frank McCourt's extraordinary language, storytelling, humor and compassion transformed the grim experiences into an inspiring, often hilarious tale of survival, dignity and love. Angela's Ashes was hailed around the world as a classic and not only spent a year on the bestseller lists but won its 66-year-old first-time author the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. (from EP) Exclusive Leather-Bound Collector's Edition Genuine Premium Leather Moire Fabric Endsheets Permanent Satin Ribbon Page Marker 22-karat Gold Gilded Page Edges Smythe-sewn Pages for Strength and Durability Luxurious Spines Hubbed with Raised Ring*** See our other listings and ebay store for more Easton Press signed material SHIPPING / HANDLING: All purchases will be shipped fully insured including tracking number for confirmation via USPS media mail unless otherwise requested, with special care taken during packing to ensure you receive the books as described. Packaging will be a hard box for care as we do not use shipping bags or envelopes. For multiple purchases, when possible every effort will be made to combine shipping at a discount. I am helping my father liquidate his library of over 5000 collectible leather books. These include Easton Press, Franklin Library and older leatherbound items. All transactions will be handled with the utmost of professionalism. I look forward to presenting you the opportunity to build on your own collection. If you have any questions or are looking for something in particular, I may be able to help! Please forward for a timely reply.
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