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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... there's room for all sorts of uselessness ? I'll give you the fare . She arrived in New York just in time for the ... there was bound to be a knee - trembler . A knee - trembler is the act itself done up against a wall , man and woman up ...
... there's room for all sorts of uselessness ? I'll give you the fare . She arrived in New York just in time for the ... there was bound to be a knee - trembler . A knee - trembler is the act itself done up against a wall , man and woman up ...
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... There is a suspicion you might have Presbyterians in your family , which would explain what you did to our cousin . Jimmy said , Ah , now , ah , now . ' Tisn't his fault if there's Presbyteri- ans in his family . Delia said , You ...
... There is a suspicion you might have Presbyterians in your family , which would explain what you did to our cousin . Jimmy said , Ah , now , ah , now . ' Tisn't his fault if there's Presbyteri- ans in his family . Delia said , You ...
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... there's no more children . He don't have a job , so he don't , an ' never will the way he drinks . So . . . no more children , Angela . Are you listenin ' to me ? I am , Philomena . A year later another child was born . Angela called ...
... there's no more children . He don't have a job , so he don't , an ' never will the way he drinks . So . . . no more children , Angela . Are you listenin ' to me ? I am , Philomena . A year later another child was born . Angela called ...
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... there's nothing worse in the world than to owe and be beholden to anyone . She cleans the kitchen , washes the mugs and plates , brushes crumbs and bits of food from the table , cleans out the icebox and orders a fresh block of ice from ...
... there's nothing worse in the world than to owe and be beholden to anyone . She cleans the kitchen , washes the mugs and plates , brushes crumbs and bits of food from the table , cleans out the icebox and orders a fresh block of ice from ...
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... there's a man standing in a box with windows all around . Mam talks to the man . She wants to know if she can go inside to where the men are paid and maybe they'd give her some of Dad's wages so he wouldn't spend it in the bars . The ...
... there's a man standing in a box with windows all around . Mam talks to the man . She wants to know if she can go inside to where the men are paid and maybe they'd give her some of Dad's wages so he wouldn't spend it in the bars . The ...
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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