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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... Lovely little fella . Loves his daddy . Laughs when Daddy throws him up in the air . Upsy daisy , little Paddy , upsy daisy , up in the air in the dark , so dark , oh , Jasus , you miss the child on the way down and poor little Patrick ...
... Lovely little fella . Loves his daddy . Laughs when Daddy throws him up in the air . Upsy daisy , little Paddy , upsy daisy , up in the air in the dark , so dark , oh , Jasus , you miss the child on the way down and poor little Patrick ...
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... lovely girl with black curly hair and sad blue eyes . Ah , Lord above , says Nurse O'Halloran , this child is a time straddler , born with her head in the New Year and her arse in the Old or was it her head in the Old Year and her arse ...
... lovely girl with black curly hair and sad blue eyes . Ah , Lord above , says Nurse O'Halloran , this child is a time straddler , born with her head in the New Year and her arse in the Old or was it her head in the Old Year and her arse ...
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... lovely saint of Assisi . Angela wanted to give him a middle name , Munchin , after the patron saint of Limerick but Malachy said over his dead body . No son of his would have a Limerick name . It's hard enough going through life with ...
... lovely saint of Assisi . Angela wanted to give him a middle name , Munchin , after the patron saint of Limerick but Malachy said over his dead body . No son of his would have a Limerick name . It's hard enough going through life with ...
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... lovely boys , look at those big eyes . Malachy stands in the middle of the room , looking up at everyone , pointing to his tongue and saying , Uck , uck . When the neighbors say , Can't you see we're looking at your little brothers ? he ...
... lovely boys , look at those big eyes . Malachy stands in the middle of the room , looking up at everyone , pointing to his tongue and saying , Uck , uck . When the neighbors say , Can't you see we're looking at your little brothers ? he ...
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... lovely Italian man in the grocery shop and she can hold her head up again because there's nothing worse in the world than to owe and be beholden to anyone . She cleans the kitchen , washes the mugs and plates , brushes crumbs and bits ...
... lovely Italian man in the grocery shop and she can hold her head up again because there's nothing worse in the world than to owe and be beholden to anyone . She cleans the kitchen , washes the mugs and plates , brushes crumbs and bits ...
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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