ANGELA´S ASHES: A MEMOIR MCCOURT, F.

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. Angela's Ashes is 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 brought
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 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.