Angela’s Ashes The first book in the Angela’s Ashes

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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. --> Genre: Biography & Autobiography General