Angelas Ashes : A Memoir

English

ISBN: 068487217X

EAN: 9780684872179

Category: Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural/Biography & Autobiography / General/Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs/

Publisher: Scribner

Release Date: 11/01/1999

Synopsis: 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. For thirty years he taught in New York City high schools. His first book, Angelas Ashes, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the L.A. Times Book Award. In 2006, he won the prestigious Ellis Island Family Heritage Award for Exemplary Service in the Field of the Arts and the United Federation of Teachers John Dewey Award for Excellence in Education. He lives with his wife, Ellen, in New York and Connecticut.

Awards: National Book Critics Circle Awards – null  American Library Association Notable Books – null  Pulitzer Prize – null  Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year – null  Rea Non-Fiction Prize (Boston, Massachusetts) – null  Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award – null 

Angelas Ashes : A Memoir

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Edition: 2

Height: 0.78 inches

Width: 5.54 inches

Length: 8.4 inches

Weight: 14.82 oz

Pages: 368