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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... floor . She moans a long moan over the child and turns on Grandpa . Get out of it . Out . If you stay here a minute longer I'll take the hatchet to you , you drunken lunatic . By Jesus , I'll swing at the end of a rope for you . Get out ...
... floor . She moans a long moan over the child and turns on Grandpa . Get out of it . Out . If you stay here a minute longer I'll take the hatchet to you , you drunken lunatic . By Jesus , I'll swing at the end of a rope for you . Get out ...
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... floor . Is she all right ? My mother says , Of course she's all right . She's feeding . God above , you're a bundle of nerves . They're talking about Margaret now and I'm forgotten . I don't care . I'm going down the hall to ask Freddie ...
... floor . Is she all right ? My mother says , Of course she's all right . She's feeding . God above , you're a bundle of nerves . They're talking about Margaret now and I'm forgotten . I don't care . I'm going down the hall to ask Freddie ...
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... with sugar . Now they eat and smile and rub the goody over their faces . Malachy wants some and if he can eat it , so can I. We all sit on the floor eating the goody and chew- ing on the cold sausage and drinking water my mother 36.
... with sugar . Now they eat and smile and rub the goody over their faces . Malachy wants some and if he can eat it , so can I. We all sit on the floor eating the goody and chew- ing on the cold sausage and drinking water my mother 36.
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... floor drinking from mugs . We spoon the soup into the twins ' mouths . It is lovely and hot and tasty . My mother never makes soup like this and I wonder if there's any chance Mrs. Leibowitz could ever be my mother . Freddie could be me ...
... floor drinking from mugs . We spoon the soup into the twins ' mouths . It is lovely and hot and tasty . My mother never makes soup like this and I wonder if there's any chance Mrs. Leibowitz could ever be my mother . Freddie could be me ...
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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