Angela’s Ashes
Author: Frank McCourt
Special edition of the bestselling classic, to tie-in with the release of Alan Parker’s major new film of Angela’s Ashes.Angela’s Ashes is Frank McCourt’s sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s. It is a story of extreme hardship and suffering, in Brooklyn tenements and Limerick slums — too many children, too little mo….Read More
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