by Frank McCourt · Flamingo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780002558129
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«Angela's Ashes» is Frank McCourt's memoir, published by Flamingo in paperback (384 pages, in English).
Frank McCourt recounts his childhood between Brooklyn, where he is born in 1930, and Limerick, where his Irish family returns. Poverty, his father's alcoholism and death mark years that unfold during the Great Depression and the Second World War, narrated from the gaze of the child he was with a style that combines humour and emotion.
Originally published in 1996, it was Frank McCourt's first book and won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in the biography or autobiography category.
Aimed at readers of memoirs, biographies and Irish literature, as well as reading clubs looking for a childhood story told with humour.
Francis McCourt was an Irish-American teacher and writer. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his book Angela's Ashes, a tragicomic memoir of the misery and squalor of his childhood.
