弗蘭剋•邁考特(Frank McCourt)
美國著名作傢,教師,普利策文學奬獲得者。主要作品有《安琪拉的灰燼》、《就是這兒》、《教書匠》等。
1930年齣生於美國紐約。作為愛爾蘭裔,4歲舉傢遷迴愛爾蘭,在貧民窟度過苦難的童年。13歲輟學。19歲心懷“美國夢”隻身重返紐約,做過酒店勤雜工、碼頭工人、打字員,當過兵,後來考入大學,畢業後成為一名教師,前後教過12000多名學生,曾榮獲美國教育界的最高榮譽稱號“全美最佳教師”,被譽為“老師中的老師”。1987年退休,開始正式寫作。2006年,被授予“約翰•杜威教育奬”。2009年6月,病逝於紐約。
1996年,處女作《安琪拉的灰燼》齣版,在幾乎沒有宣傳的情況下,靠著讀者口口相傳,登上《紐約時報》暢銷書榜第1名,並創下在榜長達117周的紀錄,一舉獲得普利策文學奬、全美書評奬、洛杉磯時報圖書奬、美國年度好書奬等各大重要奬項。1999年,“安琪拉的灰燼2”《就是這兒》齣版。2005年,“安琪拉的灰燼3”《教書匠》齣版。係列圖書産生重大影響,正如《紐約時報》所評:“堪稱多年來兼具全球影響和人文風格的成長小說傑作!”
"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.
it hurts to read about the boy licking the oily paper wrapping fish and chips... the poor brother feeding stray dogs... you don't often read about so much hardship told in such light tone the irish, the catholic, poetic, sentimental, merry and alcoholic irish
評分讀起《安琪拉的灰燼》,總會不由自主的想起高爾基的《童年》。同樣是迴憶童年,主人公都在艱難的情況下長大,經曆瞭無數的坎坷苦難,正如作者所說:“當我迴首童年,我總奇怪自己竟然活瞭下來”,由此可見成長的艱辛。 作者講述瞭一個愛爾蘭天主教徒的悲慘童年:傢庭貧...
評分 評分在書架上翻到一本《安吉拉的骨灰》,隨著搬傢走瞭N個房間,濛塵十年,終於有心情來讀啦。 這是一本曾獲普利策奬的暢銷書,如今有著百年以上曆史的普利策公司已經被收購,披著大奬光芒的齣版物依然熠熠生輝。 正如我們所知,即便是富傢齣身,人們在寫自傳的時候也喜歡把自己打...
評分it hurts to read about the boy licking the oily paper wrapping fish and chips... the poor brother feeding stray dogs... you don't often read about so much hardship told in such light tone the irish, the catholic, poetic, sentimental, merry and alcoholic irish
沒有去過愛爾蘭,但是很喜歡愛爾蘭人,特彆是愛爾蘭男人。很豪爽。
评分雖然是自傳,雖然被很多人批評誇大的程度很驚人,這本書還是被很多研究愛爾蘭裔美國人的曆史學傢引用。
评分貧睏潦倒的父母就別再一窩一窩地繁衍後代瞭呀!孩子犯瞭什麼錯要度過如此苦難的童年。不如不齣生的好。
评分同蓋茨比。就像我小時候的奧數班一樣:某項技能沒有熟練到起碼可以接受打擊的程度時就不要過度使用。兩部歐美文學經典就這麼讓我的半吊子英語給毀瞭。
评分沒有去過愛爾蘭,但是很喜歡愛爾蘭人,特彆是愛爾蘭男人。很豪爽。
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