description: "When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable 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. People everywhere brag or whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish the poverty; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying shcoolmasters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years. Above all we were wet!" So begins Frank McCourt's stunning memoir of his childhood in Ireland and America, a recollection of unvarnished truth and no self pity, of grinding poverty and indomitable spirit that will live in the memory long after the tape has ended. Now a major film directed by Alan Parker and starring Robert Carlyle and Emily Watson.
language: English
title: Angela's Ashes : A Memoir of a Childhood
titlecomplete: Angela's Ashes : A Memoir of a Childhood
characters: Frank McCourt
genres: Ireland, Biography, Historical, Memoir, Nonfiction, Classics, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, Irish Literature, History
ratings_count: 616743
places: Ireland, New York (State), Limerick
series: Frank McCourt
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Biography or Autobiography, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: American Booksellers Book Of The Year  Award
category: Adult Trade, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Audie Award
category: Nonfiction, Abridged, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Biography, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Exclusive Books Boeke Prize, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Biography/Autobiography
publisher: Harpercollins Pub Ltd