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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... girl with black curly hair and sad blue eyes . Ah , Lord above , says Nurse O'Halloran , this child is a time straddler , born with her head in the New Year and her arse in the Old or was it her head in the Old Year and her arse in the ...
... girl with black curly hair and sad blue eyes . Ah , Lord above , says Nurse O'Halloran , this child is a time straddler , born with her head in the New Year and her arse in the Old or was it her head in the Old Year and her arse in the ...
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... girl is a disgrace to the Irish race and you should be ashamed of yourself . Och , I am , said 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 ...
... girl is a disgrace to the Irish race and you should be ashamed of yourself . Och , I am , said 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 ...
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... girl all for herself . She'd give any- thing for one little girl . I'm in the playground with Malachy . I'm four , he's three . He lets me push him on the swing because he's no good at swinging himself and Freddie Leibowitz is in school ...
... girl all for herself . She'd give any- thing for one little girl . I'm in the playground with Malachy . I'm four , he's three . He lets me push him on the swing because he's no good at swinging himself and Freddie Leibowitz is in school ...
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... girl , and they call her Margaret . We all love Margaret . She has black curly hair and blue eyes like Mam and she waves her little hands and chirps like any little bird in the trees along Classon Avenue . Minnie says there was a ...
... girl , and they call her Margaret . We all love Margaret . She has black curly hair and blue eyes like Mam and she waves her little hands and chirps like any little bird in the trees along Classon Avenue . Minnie says there was a ...
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... girl long time ago . Och , they're lovely , aren't they ? says Minnie . The little boys are grand , too , but you need a little girl for yourself . My mother laughs , For myself ? Lord above , 30.
... girl long time ago . Och , they're lovely , aren't they ? says Minnie . The little boys are grand , too , but you need a little girl for yourself . My mother laughs , For myself ? Lord above , 30.
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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