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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... fall for that lunatic . You shoulda stayed single , put the child up for adoption , and you'd be a free woman today . Angela cried harder and Delia took up the attack , Oh , stop it , Angela , stop it . You have nobody to blame but your ...
... fall for that lunatic . You shoulda stayed single , put the child up for adoption , and you'd be a free woman today . Angela cried harder and Delia took up the attack , Oh , stop it , Angela , stop it . You have nobody to blame but your ...
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... fall asleep on my parents ' bed and when my mother shakes me it's nearly dark . Your little brother is going to sleep a while . Nearly bit his tongue off . Stitches galore . Go into the other room . My father is in the kitchen sipping ...
... fall asleep on my parents ' bed and when my mother shakes me it's nearly dark . Your little brother is going to sleep a while . Nearly bit his tongue off . Stitches galore . Go into the other room . My father is in the kitchen sipping ...
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... fall asleep after eating and Mam lays them on the bed to change their dia- pers . She sends me down the hall to rinse the dirty diapers in the lavatory so that they can be hung up to dry and used the next day . Malachy helps her wash ...
... fall asleep after eating and Mam lays them on the bed to change their dia- pers . She sends me down the hall to rinse the dirty diapers in the lavatory so that they can be hung up to dry and used the next day . Malachy helps her wash ...
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... fall and they laugh and laugh . I push the pram over to Malachy play- ing on the swings with Freddie Leibowitz . Malachy is trying to tell Freddie all about the way Setanta became Cuchulain . I tell him stop telling that story , it's my ...
... fall and they laugh and laugh . I push the pram over to Malachy play- ing on the swings with Freddie Leibowitz . Malachy is trying to tell Freddie all about the way Setanta became Cuchulain . I tell him stop telling that story , it's my ...
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... fall off your head when they can't see you in the dark ? The 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 ...
... fall off your head when they can't see you in the dark ? The 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 ...
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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