Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
This memoir is a profound and heart-wrenching account of the author's impoverished childhood in Limerick, Ireland, during the 1930s and 1940s. The story is filled with tales of survival in the face of extreme poverty, an alcoholic father, a struggling mother, and the deaths of three siblings. Despite the harsh circumstances, the narrative is infused with a sense of humor and hope, demonstrating the resilience of the human spirit.
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- 20th on The Greatest Books of All Time (Reader's Digest)
- 26th on Koen Book Distributors Top 100 Books of the Past Century (themodernnovel.com)
- 28th on Big Read (German) (Germany)
- 36th on The New Classics - 100 Best Reads from 1983 to 2008 (Entertainment Weekly)
- 71st on My Favourite Book - Australian Big Read (Australian Big Read)
- 900th on Our Users' Favorite Books of All Time (The Greatest Books Users)
- A Century of Reading (Lithub)
- 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (Amazon.com (USA))
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography (Pulitzer Prize)