Angela's Ashes & 'Tis - 2 Hardbacks Boxset ( Flamingo First Editions) 1999

ANGELA'S ASHES & 'TIS by Frank McCourt - 2 FIRST EDITIONS Hardback Boxset. (£40.00 r.r.p)

1) Angela's Ashes: A Memoir of Childhood.

This book is Frank mcCourts's sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s. It is a story of extreme hardship and sufferin, in Brooklyn tenements and Limerick slums - too many children, too little money, his mother Angela barely coping as his father Malachy's drinking bouts constantly brought the family to the brink of disaster. It is a story of courage and survival against apparently overwhelming odds.

First published by Harper Collins in 1996, this is a FIRST EDITION from Flamingo issued in 1999

 

2) 'Tis: The Sequel to Angela Ashes.

This is the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant with rottewn teeth, infected eyes and no formal education to brilliant raconteur and schoolteacher. Saved first by a straying priest, then by the Democratic party, the by the United States Army, and then by new York University - which admitted him on a trial basis though he had no high school diploma - Frank had the same vulnerable but invincible spirit at nineteen that he had at eight and still has today. And 'TIS is a tale of survival as vivid, harrowing and often hilarious as ANGELA'S ASHES. yet again, it is through the power of story-telling that Frank finds a life for himself.

First published by Harper Collins in 1999, this is a FIRST EDITION from Flamingo issued in 1999.

A wonder gift set of 2 hardbacks within a carded boxset.