Angela's Ashes
[ 2006-07-07 09:04 ]
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中文譯名: 《安琪拉的灰燼》
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 068484267X
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Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish
childhood," writes Frank McCourt in Angela's Ashes. "Worse yet is the
miserable Irish Catholic childhood." Welcome, then, to the pinnacle of the
miserable Irish Catholic childhood. Born in Brooklyn in 1930 to recent
Irish immigrants Malachy and Angela McCourt, Frank grew up in Limerick
after his parents returned to Ireland because of poor prospects in
America.
It turns out that prospects weren't so great back in the
old country either--not with Malachy for a father. A chronically
unemployed and nearly unemployable alcoholic, he appears to be the model
on which many of our more insulting cliches about drunken Irish manhood
are based. Mix in abject poverty and frequent death and illness and you
have all the makings of a truly difficult early life. Fortunately, in
McCourt's able hands it also has all the makings for a compelling
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