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- ISBN 9780007205233
- Weight: 310g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 03 Oct 2005
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Stunning reissue of the phenomenal worldwide bestseller: 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 brings 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 with 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.
Frank McCourt (1930-2009) is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning and best-selling Angela’s Ashes. It has sold two million copies in the UK and tens of millions worldwide. He followed this with the best-selling 'Tis and the final in the trilogy, Teacher Man, was published in 2005. For thirty years he taught in NYC schools, before, in his 60s, settling down to write his story.
