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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... 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 Irish childhood , and ...
... 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 Irish childhood , and ...
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... look at my father , the thinning hair , the collapsing teeth , and wonder why anyone would 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 ...
... look at my father , the thinning hair , the collapsing teeth , and wonder why anyone would 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 ...
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... look , which came from the three months he had just spent in jail for hijacking a truck . He and his friend John McErlaine believed what they were told in the speakeasy , that the truck was packed to the roof with cases of canned pork ...
... look , which came from the three months he had just spent in jail for hijacking a truck . He and his friend John McErlaine believed what they were told in the speakeasy , that the truck was packed to the roof with cases of canned pork ...
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... look like a Presbyterian . You shuddup , said Delia . Another thing we noticed , said Philomena . You have a very odd manner . Malachy smiled . I do ? You do , says Delia . I think ' tis one of the first things we noticed about you ...
... look like a Presbyterian . You shuddup , said Delia . Another thing we noticed , said Philomena . You have a very odd manner . Malachy smiled . I do ? You do , says Delia . I think ' tis one of the first things we noticed about you ...
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... look out at Mam at the kitchen table , smoking a cigarette , drinking tea , and crying . I want to get up and tell her I'll be a man soon and I'll get a job in the place with the big gate and I'll come home every Friday night with money ...
... look out at Mam at the kitchen table , smoking a cigarette , drinking tea , and crying . I want to get up and tell her I'll be a man soon and I'll get a job in the place with the big gate and I'll come home every Friday night with money ...
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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