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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... Irish Americans - Biography . 2. Irish Americans - Ireland— Limerick ( Limerick ) -Biography . 3. McCourt family . 4. McCourt , Frank - Family . 5. Limerick ( Limerick , Ireland ) — Biography . I. Title . E184.16.M117 1996 929'.2 ...
... Irish Americans - Biography . 2. Irish Americans - Ireland— Limerick ( Limerick ) -Biography . 3. McCourt family . 4. McCourt , Frank - Family . 5. Limerick ( Limerick , Ireland ) — Biography . I. Title . E184.16.M117 1996 929'.2 ...
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... Irish childhood , and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood . People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years , but nothing can compare with the Irish version : the poverty ; the shiftless loquacious ...
... Irish childhood , and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood . People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years , but nothing can compare with the Irish version : the poverty ; the shiftless loquacious ...
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... Irish , or both . He fought with the Old IRA and for some desperate act he wound up a fugitive with a price on his head . When I was a child I would look at my father , the thinning hair , the collapsing teeth , and wonder why anyone ...
... Irish , or both . He fought with the Old IRA and for some desperate act he wound up a fugitive with a price on his head . When I was a child I would look at my father , the thinning hair , the collapsing teeth , and wonder why anyone ...
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... Irish trick and I can lick the Mick Who threw the overalls in Murphy's chowder . He's in great form altogether and he thinks he'll play a while with little Patrick , one year old . Lovely little fella . Loves his daddy . Laughs when ...
... Irish trick and I can lick the Mick Who threw the overalls in Murphy's chowder . He's in great form altogether and he thinks he'll play a while with little Patrick , one year old . Lovely little fella . Loves his daddy . Laughs when ...
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... to keep the nose on his face and that door on its hinges he'd better open up for they were there on God's business . Joey said , Awright , awright , you Irish . Jeezoz ! Trouble , trouble . Malachy , at the far end of the bar , IS.
... to keep the nose on his face and that door on its hinges he'd better open up for they were there on God's business . Joey said , Awright , awright , you Irish . Jeezoz ! Trouble , trouble . Malachy , at the far end of the bar , IS.
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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