~ Trade Paperback, Movie Tie-In Cover
~ Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography - 1997, the American Booksellers Book of the Year Award for Adult Trade - 1997, the Audie Award for Nonfiction - 1997, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography - 1996, the Exclusive Books Boeke Prize - 1997, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography/Autobiography - 1996
Born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland, Frank McCourt endured poverty, near-starvation and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors, yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance, compassion, astounding humour, and remarkable forgiveness.
A glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic, Angela's Ashes is a harrowing, fascinating, heartbreaking, and searingly honest narration told in the face of extreme-poverty and alcoholism.