by Frank McCourt · Círculo de Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422671374
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«Las cenizas de Ángela» is Frank McCourt's autobiography, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (448 pages, in Spanish).
It recounts Frank McCourt's childhood in Limerick, Ireland, in the 1930s and 1940s, marked by poverty, hunger, and illness. The author's childlike gaze lends tenderness and humor to a family portrait battered by his father's alcoholism, while Angela holds her children together and Frank dreams of escaping to America.
First volume of the Frank McCourt series; the original title is Angela's Ashes: A Memoir. The book won the Pulitzer Prize in 1997.
For readers of memoirs, biographies, and Irish history, and for 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.
