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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... never dried : tweed and woolen coats housed living things , sometimes sprouted mysterious vegetations . In pubs , steam rose from damp bodies and garments to be inhaled with cigarette and pipe smoke laced with the stale fumes of spilled ...
... never dried : tweed and woolen coats housed living things , sometimes sprouted mysterious vegetations . In pubs , steam rose from damp bodies and garments to be inhaled with cigarette and pipe smoke laced with the stale fumes of spilled ...
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... never the same after . He grew up soft in the head with a left leg that went one way , his body the other . He never learned to read or write but God blessed him in another way . When he started to sell newspapers at the age of eight he ...
... never the same after . He grew up soft in the head with a left leg that went one way , his body the other . He never learned to read or write but God blessed him in another way . When he started to sell newspapers at the age of eight he ...
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... Never 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 ...
... Never 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 ...
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... never set foot inside a speakeasy . Malachy , fresh from the speakeasy himself , felt insulted and wanted to argue with the priest , one sacrilege on top of another . Take off that collar and we'll see who's the man . He had to be held ...
... never set foot inside a speakeasy . Malachy , fresh from the speakeasy himself , felt insulted and wanted to argue with the priest , one sacrilege on top of another . Take off that collar and we'll see who's the man . He had to be held ...
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... never get with an Englishman anyway . That's my story . Dad can't tell that story to Malachy or any other children down the hall . He finishes the story and lets me sip his tea . It's bitter , but I'm happy there on his lap . For days ...
... never get with an Englishman anyway . That's my story . Dad can't tell that story to Malachy or any other children down the hall . He finishes the story and lets me sip his tea . It's bitter , but I'm happy there on his lap . For days ...
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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