description: Angela's ashes is Frank McCourt's bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the '30s and 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 and his father'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, it is imbued on every page with distinctive humour and compassion.
language: English
title: Angela's Ashes
titlecomplete: Angela's Ashes
characters: Frank McCourt
genres: Ireland, Biography, Historical, Memoir, Nonfiction, Classics, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, Irish Literature, History
ratings_count: 616851
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: ISIS Audio Books