Angela's Ashes
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- This article is about the book. See Angela's Ashes (film) for the film.
Angela's Ashes is a memoir by Frank McCourt, and tells the story of his childhood. He was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1930, the eldest son of Malachy and Angela McCourt. He is joined by brother Malachy in 1931, twins Oliver and Eugene in 1933, and a sister, Margaret, in 1934. After the death of his sister Margaret when she was only a few weeks old, his parents moved back to their native Ireland, where his younger twin brothers both died within a year of the family's arrival and where Frank's youngest brothers, Michael (b. 1936) and Alphie (b. 1940) were born. Life in Ireland, and specifically life in Limerick City, in the 1930s and 1940s, is described in all its grittiness. The story ends when he finally gets the money together to go back to America. Frank McCourt relates the second part of his life in the book 'Tis. And the third book, which is a continual of his life journey in 'Teacher Man'.
Angela's Ashes won several awards, including the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and the 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award (Biography). The memoir was adapted to a feature film Angela's Ashes in 1999 starring Emily Watson and Robert Carlyle.
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