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Angela's ashes, a memoir of a childhood, Frank McCourt

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Angela's ashes, a memoir of a childhood, Frank McCourt

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Angela's ashes

Responsibility statement

Frank McCourt

Sub title

a memoir of a childhood

Summary

Stunning reissue of the phenomenal worldwide bestseller: Frank McCourt's sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s. It is a story of extreme hardship and suffering, in Brooklyn tenements and Limerick slums - too many children, too little money, his mother Angela barely coping as his father Malachy's drinking bouts constantly brings the family to the brink of disaster. It is a story of courage and survival against apparently overwhelming odds. Written with the vitality and resonance of a work of fiction, and with a remarkable absence of sentimentality, 'Angela's Ashes' is imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's distinctive humour and compassion. Out of terrible circumstances, he has created a glorious book in the tradition of Ireland's literary masters, which bears all the marks of a great classic

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