Angela's ashes : a memoir / Frank McCourt.
by McCourt, Frank.
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BookPublisher: New York : Scribner, c1996Description: 363 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0684874350.Subject(s): McCourt, Frank -- Family | McCourt family | Irish Americans -- Biography | Limerick (Limerick, Ireland) -- BiographyDDC classification: 929/.2/0899162073 | B Summary: The author chronicles his impoverished childhood in Limerick, Ireland, in the 1930s and 1940s, describing his father's alcoholism and talent for storytelling; the challenges and tragedies his mother faced, including the loss of three children; and his early experiences in the Catholic church, and balances painful memories with humor.
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The author chronicles his impoverished childhood in Limerick, Ireland, in the 1930s and 1940s, describing his father's alcoholism and talent for storytelling; the challenges and tragedies his mother faced, including the loss of three children; and his early experiences in the Catholic church, and balances painful memories with humor.
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