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Angela's Ashes

Frank McCourt

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A Pulitzer-winning memoir of a poverty-stricken childhood.

Recommended for readers who enjoy poignant, humorous autobiographies about overcoming struggles. The book's unique feature is its vivid, descriptive language, which transports the reader to Ireland and allows them to feel intertwined with the author's emotions during troubling times.

  • Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography (1997)
  • American Booksellers Book Of The Year Award for Adult Trade (1997)
  • Audie Award for Nonfiction, Abridged (1997)
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography (1996)
  • Exclusive Books Boeke Prize (1997)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography/Autobiography (1996)
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ISBN: 9780684842677
Author: Frank McCourt
Publisher: Scribner
Date of Publication: 1999-05-25
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Biographies & Memoirs, History
Goodreads rating: 4.14
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Imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion. This is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic. So begins the Pulitzer Prize winning memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy—exasperating, irresponsible and beguiling—does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Frank lives for his father's tales of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies. Perhaps it is story that accounts for Frank's survival. Wearing rags for diapers, begging a pig's head for Christmas dinner and gathering coal from the roadside to light a fire, Frank endures poverty, near-starvation and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors—yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance and remarkable forgiveness. Angela's Ashes, imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic.
 

A Pulitzer-winning memoir of a poverty-stricken childhood.

Recommended for readers who enjoy poignant, humorous autobiographies about overcoming struggles. The book's unique feature is its vivid, descriptive language, which transports the reader to Ireland and allows them to feel intertwined with the author's emotions during troubling times.

  • Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography (1997)
  • American Booksellers Book Of The Year Award for Adult Trade (1997)
  • Audie Award for Nonfiction, Abridged (1997)
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography (1996)
  • Exclusive Books Boeke Prize (1997)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography/Autobiography (1996)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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