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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... give money for a head like that . When I was thirteen my father's mother told me a secret : as a wee lad your poor father was dropped on his head . It was an accident , he was never the same after , and you must remember that people ...
... give money for a head like that . When I was thirteen my father's mother told me a secret : as a wee lad your poor father was dropped on his head . It was an accident , he was never the same after , and you must remember that people ...
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... give you the fare . She arrived in New York just in time for the first Thanksgiving Day of the Great Depression . She met Malachy at a party given by Dan MacAdorey and his wife , Minnie , on Classon Avenue in Brooklyn . Malachy liked ...
... give you the fare . She arrived in New York just in time for the first Thanksgiving Day of the Great Depression . She met Malachy at a party given by Dan MacAdorey and his wife , Minnie , on Classon Avenue in Brooklyn . Malachy liked ...
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... give any- thing for one little girl . I'm in the playground with Malachy . I'm four , he's three . He lets me push him on the swing because he's no good at swinging himself and Freddie Leibowitz is in school . We have to stay in the ...
... give any- thing for one little girl . I'm in the playground with Malachy . I'm four , he's three . He lets me push him on the swing because he's no good at swinging himself and Freddie Leibowitz is in school . We have to stay in the ...
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... give her some of Dad's wages so he wouldn't spend it in the bars . The man shakes his head . I'm sorry , lady , but ... gives the twins their bottles of water and sugar but Malachy and I have to wait till she gets money from Dad and we ...
... give her some of Dad's wages so he wouldn't spend it in the bars . The man shakes his head . I'm sorry , lady , but ... gives the twins their bottles of water and sugar but Malachy and I have to wait till she gets money from Dad and we ...
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... give them all kinds of food so that they'd laugh and make the baby sounds . They love the mushy food Mam makes in a pot , bread mashed up in milk and water and sugar . Mam calls it bread and goody . If I take the twins home now Mam will ...
... give them all kinds of food so that they'd laugh and make the baby sounds . They love the mushy food Mam makes in a pot , bread mashed up in milk and water and sugar . Mam calls it bread and goody . If I take the twins home now Mam will ...
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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