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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... Italian man in the grocery shop and she can hold her head up again because there's nothing worse in the world than to owe and be beholden to anyone . She cleans the kitchen , washes the mugs and plates , brushes crumbs and bits of food ...
... Italian man in the grocery shop and she can hold her head up again because there's nothing worse in the world than to owe and be beholden to anyone . She cleans the kitchen , washes the mugs and plates , brushes crumbs and bits of food ...
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... Italian for tea and bread and eggs . When the whistle blows at half five men in caps and overalls swarm through the gate , their faces and hands black from the work . Mam tells us watch carefully for Dad because she can hardly see ...
... Italian for tea and bread and eggs . When the whistle blows at half five men in caps and overalls swarm through the gate , their faces and hands black from the work . Mam tells us watch carefully for Dad because she can hardly see ...
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... Italian gro- cery shop . She tells the man her husband is late tonight , that he's prob- ably working overtime , and would it be at all possible to get a few things and she'll be sure to see him tomorrow ? The Italian says , Missus ...
... Italian gro- cery shop . She tells the man her husband is late tonight , that he's prob- ably working overtime , and would it be at all possible to get a few things and she'll be sure to see him tomorrow ? The Italian says , Missus ...
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A Memoir Frank McCourt. The Italian says , Missus , you always pay your bill sooner or later and you can have anything you like in this store . Oh , she says , I don't want much . Anything you like , missus , because I know you're an ...
A Memoir Frank McCourt. The Italian says , Missus , you always pay your bill sooner or later and you can have anything you like in this store . Oh , she says , I don't want much . Anything you like , missus , because I know you're an ...
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... Italian grocery shop is across the street and I see bananas , apples , oranges . I know the twins can eat bananas . Malachy loves bananas and I like them myself . But you need money , Italians are not known for giving away bananas ...
... Italian grocery shop is across the street and I see bananas , apples , oranges . I know the twins can eat bananas . Malachy loves bananas and I like them myself . But you need money , Italians are not known for giving away bananas ...
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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