num_pages: 507
description: Angela's Ashes is a 1996 memoir by the Irish-American author Frank McCourt. The memoir consists of various anecdotes and stories of Frank McCourt's impoverished childhood and early adulthood in Brooklyn, New York and Limerick, Ireland, as well as McCourt's struggles with poverty, his father's drinking issues, and his mother's attempts to keep the family alive. Angela's Ashes was published in 1996 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. A sequel to the book, 'Tis, was published in 1999, and was followed by Teacher Man in 2005. The book is written in the present tense and usually confines the narrator to the role of an un-biased reporter. Despite the hardship and poor working conditions that the book deals with, it is written with some amount of humor and light-heartedness.
language: German
title: Die Asche meiner Mutter. Irische Erinnerungen.
titlecomplete: Die Asche meiner Mutter. Irische Erinnerungen.
characters: Frank McCourt
genres: Ireland, Historical, Biography, Classics, Autobiography, Nonfiction, Irish Literature, History, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 616690
places: Limerick, Ireland, New York (State)
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: Luchterhand Literaturverlag