
Stunning reissue of the phenomenal worldwide bestseller: Frank Mc Court's sad funny bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s & in Ireland in the 40s. It is a story of extreme hardship & suffering in Brooklyn tenements & Limerick slums
- too many children too little money his mother Angela barely coping as his father Malachy's drinking bouts constantly brings the family to the brink of disaster. It is a story of courage & survival against apparently overwhelming odds. Written with the vitality & resonance of a work of fiction & with a remarkable absence of sentimentality ' Angela's Ashes' is imbued on every page with Frank Mc Court's distinctive humour & compassion. Out of terrible circumstances he has created a glorious book in the tradition of Ireland's literary masters which bears all the marks of a great classic.