by Frank McCourt · Maeva Ediciones · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788486478698
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«Las cenizas de Ángela» is Frank McCourt's memoir novel, published by Maeva Ediciones in paperback (400 pages, in Spanish).
Frank McCourt recalls his childhood in Brooklyn during the Great Depression and in the Irish city of Limerick: the poverty, his father Malachy's alcoholism, and his mother Angela's determination to raise five children. The narrative combines hunger and death with a humour and compassion that reveal an extraordinary capacity for survival.
First instalment of the Frank McCourt series, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1997; original title: Angela's Ashes.
For readers of memoirs and Irish literature, as well as for reading groups.
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.
