Angela's Ashes: A MemoirSimon and Schuster, 17 дек. 1998 г. - Всего страниц: 368 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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... helped me recall a small child's wonder . My wife , Ellen , listened while I read and cheered me to the final page . I am blessed among men . ANGELA'S ASHES My father and mother should have stayed in Acknowledgments ...
... helped me recall a small child's wonder . My wife , Ellen , listened while I read and cheered me to the final page . I am blessed among men . ANGELA'S ASHES My father and mother should have stayed in Acknowledgments ...
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... child I would look at my father , the thinning hair , the collapsing teeth , and wonder why anyone would give money for a head like that . When I was thirteen my father's mother told me a secret : as a wee lad your poor father was ...
... child I would look at my father , the thinning hair , the collapsing teeth , and wonder why anyone would give money for a head like that . When I was thirteen my father's mother told me a secret : as a wee lad your poor father was ...
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... child on the way down and poor little Patrick lands on his head , gurgles a bit , whimpers , goes quiet . Grandma heaves herself from the bed , heavy with the child in her belly , my mother . She's barely able to lift little Patrick ...
... child on the way down and poor little Patrick lands on his head , gurgles a bit , whimpers , goes quiet . Grandma heaves herself from the bed , heavy with the child in her belly , my mother . She's barely able to lift little Patrick ...
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... child to be born so that she can rush off to the parties and celebrations . She tells my grand- mother : Will you push , will you , push . Jesus , Mary and holy St. Joseph , if you don't hurry with this child it won't be born till the ...
... child to be born so that she can rush off to the parties and celebrations . She tells my grand- mother : Will you push , will you , push . Jesus , Mary and holy St. Joseph , if you don't hurry with this child it won't be born till the ...
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... child's birth . He thought he might name the child Malachy , after himself , but his North of Ireland accent and the alcoholic mum- ble confused the clerk so much he simply entered the name Male on the certificate . Not until late ...
... child's birth . He thought he might name the child Malachy , after himself , but his North of Ireland accent and the alcoholic mum- ble confused the clerk so much he simply entered the name Male on the certificate . Not until late ...
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