Angela's Ashes: A MemoirSimon and Schuster, 1998. 12. 17. - 368페이지 A Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, Angela’s Ashes is Frank McCourt’s masterful memoir of his childhood in Ireland. “When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.” So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank’s mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank’s father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy—exasperating, irresponsible, and beguiling—does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Frank lives for his father’s tales of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies. Perhaps it is story that accounts for Frank’s survival. Wearing rags for diapers, begging a pig’s head for Christmas dinner and gathering coal from the roadside to light a fire, Frank endures poverty, near-starvation and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors—yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance, and remarkable forgiveness. Angela’s Ashes, imbued on every page with Frank McCourt’s astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic. |
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... poor father was dropped on his head . It was an accident , he was never the same after , and you must remember that people dropped on their heads can be a bit peculiar . Because of the price on the head he had been dropped on , he had ...
... poor father was dropped on his head . It was an accident , he was never the same after , and you must remember that people dropped on their heads can be a bit peculiar . Because of the price on the head he had been dropped on , he had ...
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... poor little Patrick lands on his head , gurgles a bit , whimpers , goes quiet . Grandma heaves herself from the bed , heavy with the child in her belly , my mother . She's barely able to lift little Patrick from the floor . She moans a ...
... poor little Patrick lands on his head , gurgles a bit , whimpers , goes quiet . Grandma heaves herself from the bed , heavy with the child in her belly , my mother . She's barely able to lift little Patrick from the floor . She moans a ...
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... poor unfortunate girl is a disgrace to the Irish race and you should be ashamed of yourself . Och , I am , said Malachy . I am . Nobody asked you to talk , said Philomena . You done enough dam- age with your blather , so shut your yap ...
... poor unfortunate girl is a disgrace to the Irish race and you should be ashamed of yourself . Och , I am , said Malachy . I am . Nobody asked you to talk , said Philomena . You done enough dam- age with your blather , so shut your yap ...
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... poor wee dog was hit by a car and he crawled all the way from the middle of the street before he died . Wanted to come home , the poor wee creature . Mr. MacAdorey says , You'd better go home , Francis . I don't know what you did to ...
... poor wee dog was hit by a car and he crawled all the way from the middle of the street before he died . Wanted to come home , the poor wee creature . Mr. MacAdorey says , You'd better go home , Francis . I don't know what you did to ...
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