 First edition cover | |
| Author | Frank McCourt |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | autobiography, misery memoir |
| Publisher | Scribner |
Publication date | 5 September 1996 |
| Publication place | Ireland |
| Pages | 368 |
| Awards | 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award (Biography) 1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize 1997 Boeke Prize |
| ISBN | 0-684-87435-0 |
| OCLC | 34284265 |
| 929/.2/0899162073 20 | |
| LC Class | E184.I6 M117 1996 |
| Followed by | 'Tis |
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir is a 1996 memoir by the Irish-American author Frank McCourt, with various anecdotes and stories of his childhood. The book details his early childhood in Brooklyn, New York, but focuses primarily on his life in Limerick, Ireland. It also includes his struggles with poverty and his father's alcoholism.
The book was published in 1996 and won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. The sequel 'Tis was published in 1999, followed by Teacher Man in 2005.