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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... babies who were brought by an angel in the middle of the 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 ...
... babies who were brought by an angel in the middle of the 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 ...
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... baby bottles but he's big and he 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 ...
... baby bottles but he's big and he 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 ...
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... baby , Maisie . He holds her bottle and sings , Clap hands , clap hands , Till Daddy comes home , With buns in his ... baby soon , a lit- tle girl , and they call her Margaret . We all love Margaret . She has black curly hair and blue ...
... baby , Maisie . He holds her bottle and sings , Clap hands , clap hands , Till Daddy comes home , With buns in his ... baby soon , a lit- tle girl , and they call her Margaret . We all love Margaret . She has black curly hair and blue ...
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... baby sounds . They love the mushy food Mam makes in a pot , bread mashed up in milk and water and sugar . Mam calls it bread and goody . If I take the twins home now Mam will yell at me for giving her no rest or for waking Margaret . We ...
... baby sounds . They love the mushy food Mam makes in a pot , bread mashed up in milk and water and sugar . Mam calls it bread and goody . If I take the twins home now Mam will yell at me for giving her no rest or for waking Margaret . We ...
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... about Samson later . You can tell Freddie you're sorry and you'll never do it again and you can even ask him about Samson . Anything you like as long as you talk to Freddie . Will you ? The baby gives a little cry in my mother's arms 33.
... about Samson later . You can tell Freddie you're sorry and you'll never do it again and you can even ask him about Samson . Anything you like as long as you talk to Freddie . Will you ? The baby gives a little cry in my mother's arms 33.
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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