"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 Depressi...
"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.
只有与自身所经历的苦难和解，我们才可能彻底从阴影中走出来。有一个教育的点可挖掘，它很好地解释了对孩子初期约束的必需。你可以说这是先导，但它确实提供了一个路子，然后出让选择权，你自己挑要不要走——Stock your mind. You can make up your own minds but first stock them.
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1 有用 小调哼哼 2022-02-01 15:56:13
oh 这不是爱尔兰版《活着》吗
0 有用 布衣不绕 2019-01-24 12:57:29
善恶对错，都在生活的旋风中模糊了边界. Only suffer remains, only love remains. So poignant and vibrant the life unfolds.
1 有用 Le Flaneur 2023-02-09 15:08:06 上海
第一世界穷人的童年，文笔一般，为啥这也能得普利策奖？
6 有用 特酥♪ 2013-08-02 15:26:40
只有与自身所经历的苦难和解，我们才可能彻底从阴影中走出来。有一个教育的点可挖掘，它很好地解释了对孩子初期约束的必需。你可以说这是先导，但它确实提供了一个路子，然后出让选择权，你自己挑要不要走——Stock your mind. You can make up your own minds but first stock them.
0 有用 Katrina 2010-05-24 12:04:42
豆瓣居然有这个