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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... , you know . There's no work and I wouldn't be able to support ... Married is what you're going to be , said Delia . Up the middle aisle , said Jimmy . You shuddup , said Delia . Malachy watched them leave . I'm in a desperate pickle 16.
... , you know . There's no work and I wouldn't be able to support ... Married is what you're going to be , said Delia . Up the middle aisle , said Jimmy . You shuddup , said Delia . Malachy watched them leave . I'm in a desperate pickle 16.
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A Memoir Frank McCourt. Malachy watched them leave . I'm in a desperate pickle , he told Joey Cacciamani . Bet your ass , said Joey . I see them babes comin ' at me I jump inna Hudson River . Malachy considered the pickle he was in . He ...
A Memoir Frank McCourt. Malachy watched them leave . I'm in a desperate pickle , he told Joey Cacciamani . Bet your ass , said Joey . I see them babes comin ' at me I jump inna Hudson River . Malachy considered the pickle he was in . He ...
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... leaves floating in the melted ice . My father said never eat anything floating in water for the rot that might be in it . I fall asleep on my parents ' bed and when my mother shakes me it's nearly dark . Your little brother is going to ...
... leaves floating in the melted ice . My father said never eat anything floating in water for the rot that might be in it . I fall asleep on my parents ' bed and when my mother shakes me it's nearly dark . Your little brother is going to ...
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... leave the swings and see- saws to sit with them on the bench and sing , A group of young soldiers one night in a camp Were talking of sweethearts they had . All seemed so merry except one young lad , And he was downhearted and sad ...
... leave the swings and see- saws to sit with them on the bench and sing , A group of young soldiers one night in a camp Were talking of sweethearts they had . All seemed so merry except one young lad , And he was downhearted and sad ...
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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