Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
Ranked #2 in Ireland, Ranked #6 in Irish — see more rankings.
Imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion. This is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic.
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood."
So begins the Pulitzer Prize winning memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in... more
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood."
So begins the Pulitzer Prize winning memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in... more
Rankings by Category
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1) is ranked in the following categories:
- #92 in 10th Grade
- #90 in 15-Year-Old
- #46 in Alcohol
- #14 in Alcoholism
- #70 in Author Biography
- #25 in Autobiography
- #40 in Biography
- #44 in Brooklyn
- #42 in Dublin
- #24 in Gilmore Girls
- #54 in Immigration
- #21 in Memoir
- #18 in Poverty
- #37 in Pulitzer Prize
- #39 in True Stories
- #35 in True Story
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