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Angela's Ashes
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 Local DescriptionFlamingo, 1996. A trade paperback copy in very good condition with a gift inscription to the front page, light age tanning to the pages and creasing to the spine. DescriptionA Memoir Of A ChildhoodA sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 1930s and in Ireland in the 1940s. 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 overwhelming odds.A glorious book created out of terrible circumstances.Now a major motion picture.Winner 1997 Pulitzer Prize |
