[Rarebooks] FS: Exceptional Association Copy of Frank McCourt's ANGELA'S ASHES

[Charles Agvent]

One of many interesting items from our new catalog: 
http://www.charlesagvent.com/agvent/images/pdfs/Spring18.pdf

McCOURT, Frank. ANGELA'S ASHES. A MEMOIR. (New York): Scribner, (1996). 
First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. The moving Pulitzer Prize-winning 
autobiography by this Irish-born New York City teacher, made into a fine 
film. This is an exceptional Association Copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by 
the author on the title page at the time of publication to R'lene 
Dahlberg who heads the list of Acknowledgments for the book as the one 
who "fanned the embers." Dahlberg, the sixth of seven wives of author 
Edward Dahlberg, was a fellow teacher of McCourt's at Stuyvesant High 
School as well as a friend and muse, as evidenced by this inscription 
dated 25 November 1996: "For R'lene - with love/and memories of 
a/friendship that reaches/back almost beyond/memory and will 
continue/well into the millenium/Love/Frank McCourt." Apparently, he was 
wrong as we have a note in our possession by R'Lene Dahlberg describing 
her relationship to McCourt which, by all accounts, seems to have cooled 
dramatically upon the publication of this book. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper.

McCourt admired Edward Dahlberg's superb autobiography BECAUSE I WAS 
FLESH and modeled his own ANGELA'S ASHES after it, both writers casting 
their mothers as the central characters. Both emerged from impoverished 
childhoods to achieve success, though Dahlberg's was critical rather 
than financial. Dahlberg was dead when ANGELA'S ASHES was published in 
1996, but his former wife, R'lene Dahlberg, was alive. She was the first 
person to encourage McCourt to publish his work and stated in a private 
note, for which we can include a copy with this book, that she "got him 
his first publication- called 'If you live in a lane.'" (#018606)     
$2,500.00

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