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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... head . It was an accident , he was never the same after , and you must remember that people dropped on their heads can be a bit peculiar . Because of the price on the head he had been dropped on , he had to be spirited out of Ireland ...
... head . It was an accident , he was never the same after , and you must remember that people dropped on their heads can be a bit peculiar . Because of the price on the head he had been dropped on , he had to be spirited out of Ireland ...
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... 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 from the floor . She moans a long moan over the child and ...
... 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 from the floor . She moans a long moan over the child and ...
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... head appears , only the head , my mother , and it's the stroke of midnight , the New Year . Limerick City erupts with whistles , horns , sirens , brass bands , people calling and singing , Happy New Year . Should auld acquaintance be ...
... head appears , only the head , my mother , and it's the stroke of midnight , the New Year . Limerick City erupts with whistles , horns , sirens , brass bands , people calling and singing , Happy New Year . Should auld acquaintance be ...
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... head . Put in your tongue , son , and go out and play with Frankie . Go on . In the playground I tell Malachy about the dog who died in the street because someone drove a ball into his mouth . Malachy shakes his head . No uck ball . Car ...
... head . Put in your tongue , son , and go out and play with Frankie . Go on . In the playground I tell Malachy about the dog who died in the street because someone drove a ball into his mouth . Malachy shakes his head . No uck ball . Car ...
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... head up again because 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 ...
... head up again because 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 ...
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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
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