by Frank McCourt · Pocket Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780684843131
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«Angela's Ashes» is Frank McCourt's memoir, published by Pocket Books in paperback (464 pages, in English).
Frank McCourt recounts his childhood in the poverty of Limerick (Ireland), after his family emigrated from Brooklyn. Angela, his mother, can barely feed the children because his father, Malachy, drinks away his wages. Despite the hunger and hardships, the author evokes his childhood with humor and compassion, amid the stories his father told him.
First part of Frank McCourt's memoirs, followed by «'Tis» and «Teacher Man». The work won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
For readers of memoirs, biographies, and narrative nonfiction; also a frequent choice in book clubs.
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.
