by Frank McCourt · Harper Collins · tapa dura · ISBN 9780002254434
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«Angela's Ashes: A Memoir of a Childhood» is Frank McCourt's childhood memoir, published by Harper Collins in hardback (356 pages, in English).
Frank McCourt recalls his childhood between New York and Limerick: poverty, hunger and paternal alcoholism coexist with his mother Angela's efforts to support the family. Told from the perspective of the child he once was, the story combines humour with the harshness of a childhood of misery and resilience.
Winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, «Angela's Ashes» opens the series The Frank McCourt Memoirs and was originally published in 1996.
Recommended for readers of memoirs and biographies, and for book clubs interested in Irish literature and stories of overcoming adversity.
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.
