Angela's Ashes : A Memoir of a Childhood (Stranger Than... S.) -- Paperback

A memoir of Frank McCourt's 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 money, his mother Angela barely coping as his father Malachy's drinking bouts constantly brings the family to the brink of disaster.