McCourt, Frank - Angela’s Ashes (1997)

McCourt, Frank - Angela’s Ashes

A Memoir of a Childhood

London, HarperCollins Publishers, Flamingo, 1997

Paperback
13 x 19,5 x 2,6 cm.
426 Pages

GOOD

Pulitzer Prize 1997

In the extraordinary memoir that has won the praise of critics and the hearts of readers, Frank McCourt recounts the heartbreak and humor of his astonishingly poor childhood. Gorgeously written from the innocent perspective of young Frank, this is a memoir more dramatic, suspenseful and meamerizing than most novels.

"A magical gift for storytelling... a book that stands with The Liars' Club by Mary Karr and Andre Aciman's Out of Egypt as a classic modern memoir...stunning... Angela's Ashes is so good it deserves a sequel." -MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMES
"It is only the best storyteller who can so beguile his readers that he leaves them wanting more when he's done. With Angela's Ashes, McCourt proves himself one of the very best." -MALCOLM JONES, JR., NEWSWEEK
"Angela's Ashes contains some of the loveliest language I've ever read. It is both hilarious and utterly heartbreaking....McCourt has an astonishing gift for remembering the details of his childhood. And for writing." -DEIRDRE DONOHUE, USA TODAY

Francis McCourt (August 19, 1930 – July 19, 2009) was an Irish-American teacher and writer. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his book Angela's Ashes, a tragicomic memoir of the misery and squalor of his childhood.

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