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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... till the New Year and what good is that to me with me new dress ? 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 ...
... till the New Year and what good is that to me with me new dress ? 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 ...
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... till they cry at the way Malachy takes a deep bow and holds his arms out to Mam at the end . Dan MacAdorey comes along on his way home from work and says Rudy Vallee better start worrying about the competition . When we go home Mam ...
... till they cry at the way Malachy takes a deep bow and holds his arms out to Mam at the end . Dan MacAdorey comes along on his way home from work and says Rudy Vallee better start worrying about the competition . When we go home Mam ...
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... till it's late and Dad rolls up the stairs singing Roddy McCorley . He pushes in the door and calls for us , Where are my troops ? Where are my four warriors ? Mam says , Leave those boys alone . They're gone to bed half hungry because ...
... till it's late and Dad rolls up the stairs singing Roddy McCorley . He pushes in the door and calls for us , Where are my troops ? Where are my four warriors ? Mam says , Leave those boys alone . They're gone to bed half hungry because ...
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... till she gets money from Dad and we can go to the Italian for tea and bread and eggs . When the whistle blows at half five men in caps and overalls swarm through the gate , their faces and hands black from the work . Mam tells us watch ...
... till she gets money from Dad and we can go to the Italian for tea and bread and eggs . When the whistle blows at half five men in caps and overalls swarm through the gate , their faces and hands black from the work . Mam tells us watch ...
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... till he's four going on five . Minnie brings us in and gives us tea and porridge with jam in it . Mr. MacAdorey sits in an armchair with their new baby , Maisie . He holds her bottle and sings , Clap hands , clap hands , Till Daddy ...
... till he's four going on five . Minnie brings us in and gives us tea and porridge with jam in it . Mr. MacAdorey sits in an armchair with their new baby , Maisie . He holds her bottle and sings , Clap hands , clap hands , Till Daddy ...
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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