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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... tell you the story when you say the name right . Coo - hoo - lin . I say it right and he tells me the story of Cuchulain , who had a dif- ferent name when he was a boy , Setanta . He grew up in Ireland where Dad lived when he was a boy ...
... tell you the story when you say the name right . Coo - hoo - lin . I say it right and he tells me the story of Cuchulain , who had a dif- ferent name when he was a boy , Setanta . He grew up in Ireland where Dad lived when he was a boy ...
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... tells Minnie stories about characters in Limer- ick and Minnie tells her about characters in Belfast and they laugh because there are funny people in Ireland , North and South . Then they teach each other sad songs and Malachy and I ...
... tells Minnie stories about characters in Limer- ick and Minnie tells her about characters in Belfast and they laugh because there are funny people in Ireland , North and South . Then they teach each other sad songs and Malachy and I ...
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... tells me I'm too big for the pram . I could tell her I have pains in my legs from trying to keep up with her but she's not singing and I know this is not the day to be talking about my pains . We come to a big gate where there's a man ...
... tells me I'm too big for the pram . I could tell her I have pains in my legs from trying to keep up with her but she's not singing and I know this is not the day to be talking about my pains . We come to a big gate where there's a man ...
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... tells them shut their lip . He tells me babies should be drinking milk not water and when I tell him Mam doesn't have the money he empties the baby bottles and fills them with milk . He says , Tell ya mom they need that for the teeth an ...
... tells them shut their lip . He tells me babies should be drinking milk not water and when I tell him Mam doesn't have the money he empties the baby bottles and fills them with milk . He says , Tell ya mom they need that for the teeth an ...
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... tells her how lovely she is with her curly black hair and the blue eyes of her mother . He tells her he'll take her to Ireland and they'll walk the Glens of Antrim and swim in Lough Neagh . He'll get a job soon , so he will , and she'll ...
... tells her how lovely she is with her curly black hair and the blue eyes of her mother . He tells her he'll take her to Ireland and they'll walk the Glens of Antrim and swim in Lough Neagh . He'll get a job soon , so he will , and she'll ...
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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