Las cenizas de Ángela: Una memoria

A Pulitzer Prize-winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, Angela's Ashes is Frank McCourt's masterful memoir of his childhood in Ireland--now with a new introduction by Patrick Radden Keefe. "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy--exasperating, irresponsible, and beguiling--does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Frank lives for his father's tales of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies. Perhaps it is story that accounts for Frank's survival. Wearing rags for diapers, begging a pig's head for Christmas dinner and gathering coal from the roadside to light a fire, Frank endures poverty, near-starvation and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors--yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance, and remarkable forgiveness. Angela's Ashes, imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic.

Autor: Frank McCourt
Editorial: Scribner Book Company
Publicado: 25/05/1999
Páginas: 368
Tipo de encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Peso: 0.80 libras
Tamaño: 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.30d
ISBN13: 9780684842677
ISBN10: 068484267X
Categorías BISAC:
- Biografía y autobiografía | Histórico
- Biografía y autobiografía | Memorias
- Biografía y autobiografía | Supervivencia

Sobre el autor
Frank McCourt (1930-2009) nació en Brooklyn, Nueva York, de padres inmigrantes irlandeses, creció en Limerick, Irlanda, y regresó a América en 1949. Durante treinta años enseñó en escuelas secundarias de la ciudad de Nueva York. Su primer libro, Las cenizas de Ángela, ganó el Premio Pulitzer, el National Book Critics Circle Award y el Los Angeles Times Book Award. También es autor de las memorias 'Tis y Teacher Man. En 2006, ganó el prestigioso Premio Ellis Island Family Heritage por su servicio ejemplar en el campo de las artes y el Premio John Dewey de la United Federation of Teachers por la excelencia en la educación.