Angela's Ashes Book Cover. A memoir of a childhood (frank mccourt #1), frank mccourt 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 details his very early childhood in brooklyn, new york, but focuses primarily on his life in limerick, ireland. Frank's father was an angry, unemployed alcoholic, and the family lived in abject poverty, and was afflicted with frequent illness and death. For thirty years he taught in new york city high schools.
Mccourt skirted death, dropped out of school, returned to new york at age 20 and moved on to drinking.
― frank mccourt, angela's ashes. Frank mccourt was born in 1930 in brooklyn, new york, to irish immigrant parents, grew up in limerick, ireland, and returned to america in 1949. On the book cover of angela's ashes, there's a picture of a little shoeless boy whom i have to assume is the author, frank mccourt. 'worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable irish childhood', so writes frank mccourt in his pulitzer prize winning novel.