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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... . McCourt family . 4. McCourt , Frank - Family . 5. Limerick ( Limerick , Ireland ) — Biography . I. Title . E184.16.M117 1996 929'.2'0899162073 - dc20 96-5335 CIP ISBN 0-684-87435-0 This book is dedicated to my brothers , Malachy ,
... . McCourt family . 4. McCourt , Frank - Family . 5. Limerick ( Limerick , Ireland ) — Biography . I. Title . E184.16.M117 1996 929'.2'0899162073 - dc20 96-5335 CIP ISBN 0-684-87435-0 This book is dedicated to my brothers , Malachy ,
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A Memoir Frank McCourt. This book is dedicated to my brothers , Malachy , Michael , Alphonsus . I learn from you , I admire you and I love you . Acknowledgments This is a small hymn to an exaltation of.
A Memoir Frank McCourt. This book is dedicated to my brothers , Malachy , Michael , Alphonsus . I learn from you , I admire you and I love you . Acknowledgments This is a small hymn to an exaltation of.
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... brother , Malachy , three , the twins , Oliver and Eugene , barely one , and my sister , Margaret , dead and gone . When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all . It was , of course , a miserable childhood : the happy ...
... brother , Malachy , three , the twins , Oliver and Eugene , barely one , and my sister , Margaret , dead and gone . When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all . It was , of course , a miserable childhood : the happy ...
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... 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 in the pubs of Limerick he staggers down the lane singing his ...
... 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 in the pubs of Limerick he staggers down the lane singing his ...
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... brother . The MacNamara sisters said Angela was nothing but a rabbit and they wanted nothing to do with her till she came to her senses . Their husbands agreed . I'm in a playground on Classon Avenue in Brooklyn with my brother ...
... brother . The MacNamara sisters said Angela was nothing but a rabbit and they wanted nothing to do with her till she came to her senses . Their husbands agreed . I'm in a playground on Classon Avenue in Brooklyn with my brother ...
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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