Angela's Ashes: A MemoirSimon and Schuster, 17 de dez. de 1998 - 368 páginas 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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... Malachy McCourt , was born on a farm in Toome , County Antrim . Like his father before , he grew up wild , in trouble with the English , or the Irish , or both . He fought with the Old IRA and for some desperate act he wound up a ...
... Malachy McCourt , was born on a farm in Toome , County Antrim . Like his father before , he grew up wild , in trouble with the English , or the Irish , or both . He fought with the Old IRA and for some desperate act he wound up a ...
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... Malachy at a party given by Dan MacAdorey and his wife , Minnie , on Classon Avenue in Brooklyn . Malachy liked Angela and she liked him . He had a hangdog look , which came from the three months he had just spent in jail for hijacking ...
... Malachy at a party given by Dan MacAdorey and his wife , Minnie , on Classon Avenue in Brooklyn . Malachy liked Angela and she liked him . He had a hangdog look , which came from the three months he had just spent in jail for hijacking ...
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... Malachy . I am . Nobody asked you to talk , said Philomena . You done enough dam- age with your blather , so shut your yap . And while your yap is shut , said Delia , we're here to see you do the right thing by our poor cousin , Angela ...
... Malachy . I am . Nobody asked you to talk , said Philomena . You done enough dam- age with your blather , so shut your yap . And while your yap is shut , said Delia , we're here to see you do the right thing by our poor cousin , Angela ...
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... Malachy's gullet . Irish , indeed ! He told Joey it was a Prohibition concoction from the devil's own still . Joey shrugged . I don't know noth- ing . I only pour . Still , it was better than nothing and Malachy would have another and ...
... Malachy's gullet . Irish , indeed ! He told Joey it was a Prohibition concoction from the devil's own still . Joey shrugged . I don't know noth- ing . I only pour . Still , it was better than nothing and Malachy would have another and ...
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... Malachy again and he wanted to jump at the priest for calling the child some class of a Protestant . The priest said , Quiet , man , you're in God's house , and when Malachy said , God's house , my arse , he was thrown out on Court ...
... Malachy again and he wanted to jump at the priest for calling the child some class of a Protestant . The priest said , Quiet , man , you're in God's house , and when Malachy said , God's house , my arse , he was thrown out on Court ...
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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