by Frank McCourt · Columna CAT · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483005644
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«Les Cendres d'Angela» is the autobiographical novel by Frank McCourt, published by Columna CAT in paperback (343 pages, in Catalan).
The book narrates Frank McCourt's childhood in Catholic Ireland of the 1930s and 1940s, marked by poverty, hunger and the figure of his mother, Angela. Between tragic and comic anecdotes, the author portrays life in the suburbs of Limerick, the relationship with his alcoholic father and the resilience of a family fighting to survive. The back cover includes the famous opening of his memoirs and critical acclaim.
Work in Catalan within the Clàssica collection, translated from the original English «Angela's Ashes: A Memoir». This 1998 edition includes the Pulitzer Prize received by the author for that work.
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.
