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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... walls of Limerick glistened with the damp . Clothes never dried : tweed and woolen coats housed living things , sometimes sprouted mysterious vegetations . In pubs , steam rose from damp bodies and garments to be inhaled with cigarette ...
... walls of Limerick glistened with the damp . Clothes never dried : tweed and woolen coats housed living things , sometimes sprouted mysterious vegetations . In pubs , steam rose from damp bodies and garments to be inhaled with cigarette ...
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... wall , man and woman up on their toes , straining so hard their knees tremble with the excitement that's in it . That knee - trembler put Angela in an interesting condition and , of course , there was talk . Angela had cousins , the ...
... wall , man and woman up on their toes , straining so hard their knees tremble with the excitement that's in it . That knee - trembler put Angela in an interesting condition and , of course , there was talk . Angela had cousins , the ...
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... wall , runs his tongue over his lips . the When Dad's job goes into the third week he does not bring home wages . On Friday night we wait for him and Mam gives us bread and tea . The darkness comes down and the lights 24.
... wall , runs his tongue over his lips . the When Dad's job goes into the third week he does not bring home wages . On Friday night we wait for him and Mam gives us bread and tea . The darkness comes down and the lights 24.
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... wall . She gives the twins their bottles of water and sugar but Malachy and I have to wait till she gets money from Dad and we can go to the Italian for tea and bread and eggs . When the whistle blows at half five men in caps and ...
... wall . She gives the twins their bottles of water and sugar but Malachy and I have to wait till she gets money from Dad and we can go to the Italian for tea and bread and eggs . When the whistle blows at half five men in caps and ...
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... wall and cries . Jesus , we still have to walk all the way to Classon Avenue and I have four starving children . She sends me back into the bar where Pete offered me the sip to see if the barman would fill the twins ' bottles with water ...
... wall and cries . Jesus , we still have to walk all the way to Classon Avenue and I have four starving children . She sends me back into the bar where Pete offered me the sip to see if the barman would fill the twins ' bottles with water ...
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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