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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... gone . When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived 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 ...
... gone . When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived 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 ...
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... gone to hell for his sins . Then he discovered speakeasies and he rejoiced . After wandering and drinking in America and England he yearned for peace in his declining years . He returned to Belfast , which erupted all around him . He ...
... gone to hell for his sins . Then he discovered speakeasies and he rejoiced . After wandering and drinking in America and England he yearned for peace in his declining years . He returned to Belfast , which erupted all around him . He ...
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... gone , the Mac- Namara sisters ready to eat him alive in Brooklyn . On the feast of St. Joseph , a bitter day in March , four months after the knee - trembler , Malachy married Angela and in August the child was born . In November ...
... gone , the Mac- Namara sisters ready to eat him alive in Brooklyn . On the feast of St. Joseph , a bitter day in March , four months after the knee - trembler , Malachy married Angela and in August the child was born . In November ...
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... 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 Canadian woods we met From one bright island ...
... 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 Canadian woods we met From one bright island ...
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... gone and the trees have green leaves up and down Classon Avenue . We race the pram around the playground and the twins laugh and make goo - goo sounds till they get hungry and start to cry . There are two bottles in the pram filled with ...
... gone and the trees have green leaves up and down Classon Avenue . We race the pram around the playground and the twins laugh and make goo - goo sounds till they get hungry and start to cry . There are two bottles in the pram filled with ...
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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