Book· 1996· Nonfiction

Angela's Ashes

by Frank McCourt

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Frank McCourt's memoir of his own childhood in the slums of Limerick in the 1930s and 1940s, with an alcoholic father and the deaths of three siblings.

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Angela's Ashes

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir is a 1996 memoir by the Irish-American author Frank McCourt, with various anecdotes and stories of his childhood. The book details his early childhood in Brooklyn, New York, but focuses primarily on his life in Limerick, Ireland. It also includes his struggles with poverty and his father's alcoholism.