Angela's Ashes (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Frank McCourt
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Family or family life, Poverty or poor people, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Immigration or emigration, Catholics or Catholic Church, Ireland or Irish people, Typhoid fever
- Locales: Limerick, Ireland
Angela's Ashes was written after McCourt had retired from teaching creative writing. He had jotted down his memories of various events and vignettes over the years and had unsuccessfully attempted to write a novel about his early life. When he began writing Angela's Ashes, he envisioned that it would be one volume, culminating with his mother's death and cremation in 1981, thus the title, but it concluded instead with McCourt's return to America in 1949 when he was nineteen.
The book begins with the separate arrivals of McCourt's parents in New York—Angela from...
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