by Frank McCourt · Flamingo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780006498407
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«Angela's Ashes» is the childhood memoir of writer Frank McCourt, published by Flamingo in paperback (426 pages, in English).
Frank McCourt recalls his childhood between Brooklyn and Limerick, Ireland, in the 1930s and 1940s. In an Irish Catholic family, food and money are scarce: his father barely works and drinks away what little he earns, and his mother, Angela, tries to keep the children going. The book combines the harshness of those years with humor and compassion.
Memoir winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1997 and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1996. The sequel to this memoir is «'Tis».
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.
