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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... drinking in America and England he yearned for peace in his declining years . He returned to Belfast , which erupted all around him . He said , A pox on all their houses , and chatted with the ladies of Andersontown . They tempted him ...
... drinking in America and England he yearned for peace in his declining years . He returned to Belfast , which erupted all around him . He said , A pox on all their houses , and chatted with the ladies of Andersontown . They tempted him ...
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... drinking porter in the pubs of Limerick he staggers down the lane singing his favorite song , Who threw the overalls in Mrs. Murphy's chowder ? Nobody spoke so he said it all the louder It's a dirty Irish trick and I can lick the Mick ...
... drinking porter in the pubs of Limerick he staggers down the lane singing his favorite song , Who threw the overalls in Mrs. Murphy's chowder ? Nobody spoke so he said it all the louder It's a dirty Irish trick and I can lick the Mick ...
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... drink . They resisted the smile and spurned the offer . Delia said , We don't know what class of a tribe you come ... drink while we have this little talk . Take the drink , said Tommy , and shove it up your ass . Philomena said , Our ...
... drink . They resisted the smile and spurned the offer . Delia said , We don't know what class of a tribe you come ... drink while we have this little talk . Take the drink , said Tommy , and shove it up your ass . Philomena said , Our ...
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... drink nearly took the lin- ing off 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 ...
... drink nearly took the lin- ing off 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 ...
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... drink is the last thing on my mind . Angela started to cry . Your son's christening day and you have to go drinking . Delia told him he was a disgusting specimen but what could you expect from the North of Ireland . Malachy looked from ...
... drink is the last thing on my mind . Angela started to cry . Your son's christening day and you have to go drinking . Delia told him he was a disgusting specimen but what could you expect from the North of Ireland . Malachy looked from ...
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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