Angela's ashes

a memoir

Belletristik

• FS.E : Fremdsprachige Schriften : Einzelne Sprachen : Englische Schriften
• DR.WB : Belletristik : Romane, Erzählungen und Novellen : Biographische und autobiographische Romane

Verfasser:
McCourt, Frank

Verfasser Angabe:
Frank McCourt

Sprache:
Englisch

• Englisch
• Katholische Erziehung
• Irland
• Belletristische Darstellung
• Geschichte
• Junge

Verlag:
Scribner

Erscheinungsort:
New York

Jahr:
2017

Umfang:
460 S.

Fußnote:
Text: Englisch

ISBN:
978-0-684-84313-1

Inhalt:
"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 does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story.
Perhaps it is a story that accounts for Frank's survival. Wearing shoes repaired with tires, begging a pig's head for Christmas dinner, and searching the pubs for his father, 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.

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