Las Cenizas de Angela (Angela's Ashes): Una Memoria

by Frank McCourt, Alejandro Pareja (Other)

Overview

In this Spanish edition version of Angela's Ashes, Las Cenizas de Angela recounts McCourt's existence with remarkable exuberance and remarkable forgiveness.

Born in depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants, Frank McCourt experienced a childhood fraught with poverty and occasional cruelty. When the family moves back to Limerick, Frank endures the most miserable of childhoods.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780684859330
Publisher:	Touchstone
Publication date:	03/03/1999
Series:	Libros en Español Series
Edition description:	Spanish-language Edition
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	608,607
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.10(d)
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

Frank McCourt (1930–2009) was born 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, Angela’s Ashes, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles 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.

Editorial Reviews

Stunning....Mr. McCourt does for the town of Limerick what the young Joyce did for Dublin.
— The New York Times

Michiko Kakutani

It's astonishing that we had to wait two years for the Spanish edition of Angela's Ashes--and over 30 years for the translation of Tom s's Down These Mean Streets, a classic that first introduced the barrio to wider audiences. But at least they're here. It's also a treat to have this memoir from Jim nez, Cuban born and now a leading literary scholar living in the United States. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

Astonishingly vivid.
— The Detroit Free Press

Linnea Lannon