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Angela's ashes : a memoir of a childhood / Frank McCourt.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Harper Perennial, 2005.Description: 426 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780007205233 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 920 McCO 22
LOC classification:
  • DA995
Awards:
  • Pulitzer Prize 1997; National Book Critics' Circle Award; Los Angeles Times Award.
Summary: 'Angela's Ashes' is the memoir of retired schoolteacher Frank McCourt. He grew up in New York in the 1930s and in Ireland in the 1940s, in a large family, with an alcoholic father. It is a story of courage and survival against apparently overwhelming odds.
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General The Harden Library, King's Hospital Biography 920 McCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available R15850X0499

Originally published: London: HarperCollins, 1996.

'Angela's Ashes' is the memoir of retired schoolteacher Frank McCourt. He grew up in New York in the 1930s and in Ireland in the 1940s, in a large family, with an alcoholic father. It is a story of courage and survival against apparently overwhelming odds.

Pulitzer Prize 1997; National Book Critics' Circle Award; Los Angeles Times Award.

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