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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... night of drinking porter in the pubs of Limerick he staggers down the lane singing his favorite song , Who threw the overalls in Mrs. Murphy's chowder ? Nobody spoke so he said it all the louder It's a dirty Irish trick and I can lick ...
... night of drinking porter in the pubs of Limerick he staggers down the lane singing his favorite song , Who threw the overalls in Mrs. Murphy's chowder ? Nobody spoke so he said it all the louder It's a dirty Irish trick and I can lick ...
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... night . The neighbors say , Ooh , Ah , they're 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 ...
... night . The neighbors say , Ooh , Ah , they're 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 ...
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... night anymore . My mother says they're always hungry . She cries in the middle of the night , too . She says she's worn out nursing and feeding and changing and four boys is too much for her . She wishes she had one little girl all for ...
... night anymore . My mother says they're always hungry . She cries in the middle of the night , too . She says she's worn out nursing and feeding and changing and four boys is too much for her . She wishes she had one little girl all for ...
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... night Mam will boil water on the stove and wash us in the great tin tub and Dad will dry us . Malachy will turn ... nights like that we can drift off to sleep knowing there will be a breakfast of 233.
... night Mam will boil water on the stove and wash us in the great tin tub and Dad will dry us . Malachy will turn ... nights like that we can drift off to sleep knowing there will be a breakfast of 233.
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... night in a camp Were talking of sweethearts they had . All seemed so merry except one young lad , And he was downhearted and sad . Come and join us , said one of the boys , Surely there's someone for you . But Ned shook his head and ...
... night in a camp Were talking of sweethearts they had . All seemed so merry except one young lad , And he was downhearted and sad . Come and join us , said one of the boys , Surely there's someone for you . But Ned shook his head and ...
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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