by Frank McCourt · Editions Flammarion · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782714433237
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«Les cendres d'Angela» is Frank McCourt's memoir, published in hardback (432 pages, in French).
Frank McCourt recalls his childhood in Limerick, where he returns from Brooklyn after the American dream fails. In that city he grows up amid misery and extremely harsh conditions; his survival story, shot through with humour and a love of life, is also a tribute to the determination to get ahead.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1997 in the biography or autobiography category; it was originally published in 1996 as Angela's Ashes: A Memoir.
For readers of memoirs and stories about emigration and twentieth-century Ireland.
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.
