Angela's Ashes

Author(s): Frank McCourt

SECONDHAND BOOKS | BIOGRAPHY

A Memoir Of A ChildhoodA sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 1930s and in Ireland in the 1940s. 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 brought the family to the brink of disaster. It is a story of courage and survival against apparently overwhelming odds.A glorious book created out of terrible circumstances.Now a major motion picture.Winner 1997 Pulitzer Prize

Flamingo, 1996. A trade paperback copy in very good  condition with a gift inscription to the front page, light age tanning to the pages and creasing to the spine.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9780002558129
  • : harper collins
  • : Flamingo
  • : December 1995
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 364
  • : very good
  • : English
  • : Paperback
  • : Frank McCourt