by Frank McCourt · HarperCollins Publishers · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007217038
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«Angela's Ashes» is Frank McCourt's childhood memoir, published by HarperCollins Publishers in paperback (432 pages, in English).
Frank McCourt recalls his childhood between Brooklyn and the poor neighborhoods of Limerick, Ireland. His mother, Angela, barely manages to feed her children while his father, Malachy, drinks away his earnings. With humor and compassion, he transforms misery and hunger into a story of survival sustained by stories and family.
This memoir opens the series The Frank McCourt Memoirs. Originally published in 1996, it won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Recommended for readers of memoirs and Irish literature, and for book clubs seeking a hard story told with humor and humanity.
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.
