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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... 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 childhood is hardly worth your while . Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable ...
... 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 childhood is hardly worth your while . Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable ...
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... dead body . No son of his would have a Limerick name . It's hard enough going through life with one name . Sticking on middle names was an atrocious Amer- ican habit and there was no need for a second name when you're chris- tened after ...
... dead body . No son of his would have a Limerick name . It's hard enough going through life with one name . Sticking on middle names was an atrocious Amer- ican habit and there was no need for a second name when you're chris- tened after ...
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... dead with a slingshot , a stone in his head . His brains was on the ground . Were on the ground , says Mr. Leibowitz . Yes , Papa . Papa . That's what Freddie calls his father and Dad is what I call my father . My mother's whisper wakes ...
... dead with a slingshot , a stone in his head . His brains was on the ground . Were on the ground , says Mr. Leibowitz . Yes , Papa . Papa . That's what Freddie calls his father and Dad is what I call my father . My mother's whisper wakes ...
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... dead , Frankie . Dead . And where is your father ? She lets my hand drop . I said where is your father ? Drinking . That's where he is . There isn't a penny in the house . He can't get a job but he finds money for the drink , money for ...
... dead , Frankie . Dead . And where is your father ? She lets my hand drop . I said where is your father ? Drinking . That's where he is . There isn't a penny in the house . He can't get a job but he finds money for the drink , money for ...
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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