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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... Mam says , They get their appetites because they're starving half the time . When Dad gets a job Mam is cheerful and she sings , Anyone can see why I wanted your kiss , It had to be and the reason is this Could it be true , someone like ...
... Mam says , They get their appetites because they're starving half the time . When Dad gets a job Mam is cheerful and she sings , Anyone can see why I wanted your kiss , It had to be and the reason is this Could it be true , someone like ...
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... Mam and Minnie laugh 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 ...
... Mam and Minnie laugh 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 ...
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... Mam says , Leave those boys alone . They're gone to bed half hungry because you have to fill your belly with whiskey . He comes to the bedroom door . Up , boys , up . A nickel for every- one who promises to die for Ireland . Deep in ...
... Mam says , Leave those boys alone . They're gone to bed half hungry because you have to fill your belly with whiskey . He comes to the bedroom door . Up , boys , up . A nickel for every- one who promises to die for Ireland . Deep in ...
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... says . Later in the day Mam dresses us . She puts the twins into the pram and off we go through the long streets of Brooklyn . Sometimes she lets Malachy sit in the pram when he's tired of trotting along beside her . She tells me I'm ...
... says . Later in the day Mam dresses us . She puts the twins into the pram and off we go through the long streets of Brooklyn . Sometimes she lets Malachy sit in the pram when he's tired of trotting along beside her . She tells me I'm ...
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... Mam says , Look at him trying to dance with that child in his arms , him with his two left feet . She laughs and we all laugh . The twins cried when they were small and Dad and Mam would say Whisht and Hush and feed them and they'd go ...
... Mam says , Look at him trying to dance with that child in his arms , him with his two left feet . She laughs and we all laugh . The twins cried when they were small and Dad and Mam would say Whisht and Hush and feed them and they'd go ...
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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