Angela’s Ashes

Hardback

Condition: Good

Publisher's Synopsis McCourt's Pulitzer Prize winning look back at his childhood. "It was of course a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your 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.