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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A Memoir Frank McCourt. Angela's Ashes A MEMOIR WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Frank -McCourt Angela's Ashes A MEMOIR WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Frank. Front Cover.
A Memoir Frank McCourt. Angela's Ashes A MEMOIR WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Frank -McCourt Angela's Ashes A MEMOIR WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Frank. Front Cover.
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... Chiara , have helped me recall a small child's wonder . My wife , Ellen , listened while I read and cheered me to the final page . I am blessed among men . ANGELA'S ASHES My father and mother should have stayed in Acknowledgments ...
... Chiara , have helped me recall a small child's wonder . My wife , Ellen , listened while I read and cheered me to the final page . I am blessed among men . ANGELA'S ASHES My father and mother should have stayed in Acknowledgments ...
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... Angela Sheehan , grew up in a Limerick slum with her mother , two brothers , Thomas and Patrick , and a sister , Agnes . She never saw her father , who had run off to Australia weeks before her birth . After a night of drinking porter ...
... Angela Sheehan , grew up in a Limerick slum with her mother , two brothers , Thomas and Patrick , and a sister , Agnes . She never saw her father , who had run off to Australia weeks before her birth . After a night of drinking porter ...
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... Angela for the Angelus which rang the midnight hour , the New Year , the minute of her coming and because she was a little angel anyway . Love her as in childhood Though feeble , old and grey . For you'll never miss a mother's love Till ...
... Angela for the Angelus which rang the midnight hour , the New Year , the minute of her coming and because she was a little angel anyway . Love her as in childhood Though feeble , old and grey . For you'll never miss a mother's love Till ...
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... Angela and she liked him . He had a hangdog look , which came from the three months he had just spent in jail for hijacking a truck . He and his friend John McErlaine believed what they were told in the speakeasy , that the truck was ...
... Angela and she liked him . He had a hangdog look , which came from the three months he had just spent in jail for hijacking a truck . He and his friend John McErlaine believed what they were told in the speakeasy , that the truck was ...
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Alphie Angela arse Aunt Aggie baby Bill Galvin Billy Campbell blood bread Bridey brother chamber pot child climb Clohessy coal comes Cuchulain Dad says dance door drink Eugene eyes father Fintan fire fish and chips Frankie girl give go home goes Grandma hair hand Hannon head Ireland Irish James Cagney Jesus Kevin Barry kitchen Laman lane laugh lavatory Leibowitz lemonade Limerick Limerick Leader look lovely Malachy says Mam says Mam tells McCaffrey McCourt Michael Mikey missus morning mother mouth never night Paddy Pat Sheehan pint poor post office pram priest Redemptorist River Shannon Roddy McCorley shillings shoes singing sister sleep smile sorry stay stick stop streets sure talk telegram boy tells Mam there's thing twins Uncle Pa walk wall What's