"Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Francis McCourt
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir is a (pub.1996) Pulitzer Prize (1997) winning auto/biography, by an Irish-American writer, Francis McCourt. He is the protagonist and storyteller of this book. This book is a detailed tragicomic memoir of the childhood of writer.
He has three younger siblings i.e. Malachy, Michial and Alphie. His four younger siblings are deceased because of diseases caused by hunger and poverty. Malachy Sr., the father of the writer is alcoholic. So most of the times he is jobless and when he gets any job he losts it to his drunkenness.
This homeless family depends on charity where they are insulted and no more than beggers. At an early childhood Frank, the protagonist has to do many odd jobs at a time to feed the growing hunger of his family. Yet this sensitive, intelligent boy cherishes a dream to go to America and saves money for it.
This book of 425 pages keeps you engrossed from first page till the end.
He has three younger siblings i.e. Malachy, Michial and Alphie. His four younger siblings are deceased because of diseases caused by hunger and poverty. Malachy Sr., the father of the writer is alcoholic. So most of the times he is jobless and when he gets any job he losts it to his drunkenness.
This homeless family depends on charity where they are insulted and no more than beggers. At an early childhood Frank, the protagonist has to do many odd jobs at a time to feed the growing hunger of his family. Yet this sensitive, intelligent boy cherishes a dream to go to America and saves money for it.
This book of 425 pages keeps you engrossed from first page till the end.
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