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Angela's Ashes: A Memoir of a Childhood

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Poignant Irish memoir blending humor with hardship.

"Angela's Ashes" resonates deeply for its raw, lyrical honesty. McCourt's narrative draws you into the bleak streets of Limerick with a wit that somehow underscores the gravity of his impoverished upbringing rather than diminishing it. Reading this, you can't help but marvel at his resilience, laugh at his youthful perceptions, and reflect on the strength of the human spirit in the face of adversity. It's a testament to storytelling's power to heal and to hope.

  • 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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Angela's Ashes: A Memoir of a Childhood

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ISBN: 9780006498407
Authors: Frank McCourt
Publisher: Flamingo
Date of Publication: 1997-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Biographies & Memoirs, History
Goodreads rating: 4.14
(rated by 626004 readers)

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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. "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." 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, exuber
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Poignant Irish memoir blending humor with hardship.

"Angela's Ashes" resonates deeply for its raw, lyrical honesty. McCourt's narrative draws you into the bleak streets of Limerick with a wit that somehow underscores the gravity of his impoverished upbringing rather than diminishing it. Reading this, you can't help but marvel at his resilience, laugh at his youthful perceptions, and reflect on the strength of the human spirit in the face of adversity. It's a testament to storytelling's power to heal and to hope.

  • 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.