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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... sleep a while . Nearly bit his tongue off . Stitches galore . Go into the other room . My father is in the kitchen sipping black tea from his big white enamel mug . He lifts me to his lap . Dad , will you tell me the story about Coo 20.
... sleep a while . Nearly bit his tongue off . Stitches galore . Go into the other room . My father is in the kitchen sipping black tea from his big white enamel mug . He lifts me to his lap . Dad , will you tell me the story about Coo 20.
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... sleeping and my mother says she's worn out . Go out and play , she says , and give me some rest . Dad is out looking for a job again and sometimes he comes home with the smell of whiskey , singing all the songs about suffering Ireland ...
... sleeping and my mother says she's worn out . Go out and play , she says , and give me some rest . Dad is out looking for a job again and sometimes he comes home with the smell of whiskey , singing all the songs about suffering Ireland ...
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... . Leibowitz down the hall , and Dad will have the two of them rowing up a river in Brazil chased by Indians with green noses and puce shoulders . On nights like that we can drift off to sleep knowing there will be a breakfast of 233.
... . Leibowitz down the hall , and Dad will have the two of them rowing up a river in Brazil chased by Indians with green noses and puce shoulders . On nights like that we can drift off to sleep knowing there will be a breakfast of 233.
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A Memoir Frank McCourt. off to sleep knowing there will be a breakfast of eggs , fried tomatoes and fried bread , tea with lashings of sugar and milk and , later in the day , a big dinner of mashed potatoes , peas and ham , and a trifle ...
A Memoir Frank McCourt. off to sleep knowing there will be a breakfast of eggs , fried tomatoes and fried bread , tea with lashings of sugar and milk and , later in the day , a big dinner of mashed potatoes , peas and ham , and a trifle ...
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... sleeping , when Mam is tired , and when Dad comes home with the whiskey smell on him , roaring about Kevin Barry getting hanged on a Monday morning or the Roddy McCorley song , Up the narrow street he stepped Smiling and proud and young ...
... sleeping , when Mam is tired , and when Dad comes home with the whiskey smell on him , roaring about Kevin Barry getting hanged on a Monday morning or the Roddy McCorley song , Up the narrow street he stepped Smiling and proud and young ...
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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