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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... morning of the fourth Friday of Dad's job Mam asks him if he'll be home tonight with his wages or will he drink everything again ? He looks at us and shakes his head at Mam as if to say , Och , you shouldn't talk like that in front of ...
... morning of the fourth Friday of Dad's job Mam asks him if he'll be home tonight with his wages or will he drink everything again ? He looks at us and shakes his head at Mam as if to say , Och , you shouldn't talk like that in front of ...
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... morning or the Roddy McCorley song , Up the narrow street he stepped Smiling and proud and young About the hemp - rope on his neck The golden ringlets clung , There's never a tear in the blue Both glad and bright are they , As Roddy ...
... morning or the Roddy McCorley song , Up the narrow street he stepped Smiling and proud and young About the hemp - rope on his neck The golden ringlets clung , There's never a tear in the blue Both glad and bright are they , As Roddy ...
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... morning in the room but you can see Dad over by the window with Margaret in his arms . He's rocking her and sigh- ing , Och . Mam says , Is she , is she sick ? Och , she's very quiet and she's a wee bit cold . My mother is out of the ...
... morning in the room but you can see Dad over by the window with Margaret in his arms . He's rocking her and sigh- ing , Och . Mam says , Is she , is she sick ? Och , she's very quiet and she's a wee bit cold . My mother is out of the ...
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... He has us stand at attention in the kitchen . We are soldiers . He tells us we must promise to die for Ireland . We will , Dad , we will . All together we sing Kevin Barry , On Mountjoy one Monday morning , High upon the gallows 39.
... He has us stand at attention in the kitchen . We are soldiers . He tells us we must promise to die for Ireland . We will , Dad , we will . All together we sing Kevin Barry , On Mountjoy one Monday morning , High upon the gallows 39.
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... morning How he held his head on high . There's a knock at the door , Mr. MacAdorey . Och , Malachy , for God's sake , it's three in the morning . You have the whole house woke with the singing . Och , Dan , I'm only teaching the boys to ...
... morning How he held his head on high . There's a knock at the door , Mr. MacAdorey . Och , Malachy , for God's sake , it's three in the morning . You have the whole house woke with the singing . Och , Dan , I'm only teaching the boys to ...
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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