Angelas Ashes: A Memoir of a Childhood
Angelas Ashes: A Memoir of a Childhood
Frank McCourt
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Summary
McCourt's Pulitzer Prize winning look back at his childhood. "It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while..." Angela's Ashes is Frank McCourt's sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s. It is a story of extreme hardship and suffering, in Brooklyn tenements and Limerick slums -- too many children, too little money, his mother Angela barely coping as his father Malachy's drinking bouts constantly brought the family to the brink of disaster. It is a story of courage and survival against apparently overwhelming odds. Written with the vitality and resonance of a work of fiction, and a remarkable absence of sentimentality, Angela's Ashes is imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's distinctive humour and compassion. Out of terrible circumstances, he has created a glorious book in the tradition of Ireland's literary masters, which bears all the marks of a great classic.
Product Description
Title - Angelas Ashes: A Memoir of a Childhood
Edition -
Author - Frank McCourt
ISBN 13 - 9780002254434
Imprint - Flamingo
Publisher - HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published - 06/09/1999
Prize -
No. of pages -
Binding Type - Hardback
Dimensions - 160 x 242 x mm
Weight - 680 g
Languages - English