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Angela’s Ashes
memoir by McCourt
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American literature
- In American literature: Multicultural writing
…Texas Gulf Coast; Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes (1996), a vivid portrayal of a Dickensian childhood amid the grinding conditions of Irish slum life; Anne Roiphe’s bittersweet recollections of her rich but cold-hearted parents and her brother’s death from AIDS in 1185 Park Avenue (1999); and Dave Eggers’s A Heartbreaking
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- In Frank McCourt
…best known for the memoir Angela’s Ashes (1996), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize.
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