Title Angela's ashes : a memoir / Frank McCourt

Edition Special Australian trade paperback edition Published London : HarperCollins, [1996] ©1996

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Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
MELB	920.0092916073 Mccour Mcc/Aaa		AVAILABLE
W'PONDS	920.0092916073 Mccour Mcc/Aaa		AVAILABLE

Description 364 pages ; 24 cm Summary This book "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 over-whelmingly odds." - back cover Notes "Winner of the 1997 Pulitzer prize"--cover Pulitzer Prize 1997; National Book Critics' Circle Award; Los Angeles Times Award Subject McCourt, Frank -- Childhood and youth. McCourt, Frank -- Family. McCourt family. Irish Americans -- Biography. Irish Americans -- Ireland -- Limerick (Limerick) -- Biography. Irish Americans -- Ireland -- Limerick -- Biography Irish -- Australia -- Biography. SUBJECT Ireland -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068054 Limerick (Ireland) -- Biography Limerick (Limerick, Ireland) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83068815 -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237 Genre/Form Autobiographies. ISBN 0002558122 (paperback)

Other Titles Memoir of a childhood

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