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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... week's wages . The rain drove us into the church - our refuge , our strength , our only dry place . At Mass , Benediction , novenas , we huddled in great damp clumps , dozing through priest drone , while steam rose again from our ...
... week's wages . The rain drove us into the church - our refuge , our strength , our only dry place . At Mass , Benediction , novenas , we huddled in great damp clumps , dozing through priest drone , while steam rose again from our ...
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... weeks before her birth . After a night of drinking porter in the pubs of Limerick he staggers down the lane singing his favorite song , Who threw the overalls in Mrs. Murphy's chowder ? Nobody spoke so he said it all the louder It's a ...
... weeks before her birth . After a night of drinking porter in the pubs of Limerick he staggers down the lane singing his favorite song , Who threw the overalls in Mrs. Murphy's chowder ? Nobody spoke so he said it all the louder It's a ...
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... week's wages Mam is delighted she can pay the lovely Italian man in the grocery shop and she can hold her head up again because there's nothing worse in the world than to owe and be beholden to anyone . She cleans the kitchen , washes ...
... week's wages Mam is delighted she can pay the lovely Italian man in the grocery shop and she can hold her head up again because there's nothing worse in the world than to owe and be beholden to anyone . She cleans the kitchen , washes ...
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... week's wages and the weather is fine Mam takes us to the playground . She sits on a bench and talks to Minnie MacAdorey . She tells Minnie stories about characters in Limer- ick and Minnie tells her about characters in Belfast and they ...
... week's wages and the weather is fine Mam takes us to the playground . She sits on a bench and talks to Minnie MacAdorey . She tells Minnie stories about characters in Limer- ick and Minnie tells her about characters in Belfast and they ...
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... week Dad loses the job . He comes home that Friday night , throws his wages on the table and says to Mam , Are you happy now ? You hang around the gate complaining and accusing and they sack me . They were looking for an excuse and you ...
... week Dad loses the job . He comes home that Friday night , throws his wages on the table and says to Mam , Are you happy now ? You hang around the gate complaining and accusing and they sack me . They were looking for an excuse and you ...
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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