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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... mind St. Gerard Majella . What can a man do for a woman at a time like this even if he is a saint ? St. Gerard Majella my arse . My grandmother switches her prayers to St. Ann , patron saint of dif- ficult labor . But the child won't ...
... mind St. Gerard Majella . What can a man do for a woman at a time like this even if he is a saint ? St. Gerard Majella my arse . My grandmother switches her prayers to St. Ann , patron saint of dif- ficult labor . But the child won't ...
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... mind . Angela started to cry . Your son's christening day and you have to go drinking . Delia told him he was a disgusting specimen but what could you expect from the North of Ireland . Malachy looked from one to the other , shifted on ...
... mind . Angela started to cry . Your son's christening day and you have to go drinking . Delia told him he was a disgusting specimen but what could you expect from the North of Ireland . Malachy looked from one to the other , shifted on ...
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... mind talk . But even if he could no one is paying any attention to him because we have two new babies who were brought by an angel in the middle of the night . The neighbors say , Ooh , Ah , they're lovely boys , look at those big eyes ...
... mind talk . But even if he could no one is paying any attention to him because we have two new babies who were brought by an angel in the middle of the night . The neighbors say , Ooh , Ah , they're lovely boys , look at those big eyes ...
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... mind the language , food on the table is what she wants , not suffering Ireland . She says it was a sad day Prohibition ended because Dad gets the drink going around to saloons offering to sweep out the bars and lift barrels for a ...
... mind the language , food on the table is what she wants , not suffering Ireland . She says it was a sad day Prohibition ended because Dad gets the drink going around to saloons offering to sweep out the bars and lift barrels for a ...
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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