Angela’s Ashes

by Frank McCourt

Angela’s Ashes: Genre 1 key example

Genre
Explanation and Analysis:

Angela’s Ashes, by the Irish author Frank McCourt, belongs to the genre of part-memoir, part-fiction often called "misery literature" or "misery memoirs." This genre focuses on real-life stories with some fictional elements that describe poverty and suffering of all kinds, written with the purpose of giving readers an honest view of difficult lives.