Angela's ashes : a memoir of a chilhood /
Frank McCourt.
- London : Flamingo, 1997.
- 426 p. ; 19 cm.
A memoir of growing up in New York in the 1930s and in Ireland in the 1940s. McCourt tells of extreme hardship and suffering, in Brooklyn tenements and Limerick slums - too many children, too little money, his mother barely coping as his father's drinking bouts brought the family close to disaster.