弗兰克•迈考特(Frank McCourt)
美国著名作家,教师,普利策文学奖获得者。主要作品有《安琪拉的灰烬》、《就是这儿》、《教书匠》等。
1930年出生于美国纽约。作为爱尔兰裔,4岁举家迁回爱尔兰,在贫民窟度过苦难的童年。13岁辍学。19岁心怀“美国梦”只身重返纽约,做过酒店勤杂工、码头工人、打字员,当过兵,后来考入大学,毕业后成为一名教师,前后教过12000多名学生,曾荣获美国教育界的最高荣誉称号“全美最佳教师”,被誉为“老师中的老师”。1987年退休,开始正式写作。2006年,被授予“约翰•杜威教育奖”。2009年6月,病逝于纽约。
1996年,处女作《安琪拉的灰烬》出版,在几乎没有宣传的情况下,靠着读者口口相传,登上《纽约时报》畅销书榜第1名,并创下在榜长达117周的纪录,一举获得普利策文学奖、全美书评奖、洛杉矶时报图书奖、美国年度好书奖等各大重要奖项。1999年,“安琪拉的灰烬2”《就是这儿》出版。2005年,“安琪拉的灰烬3”《教书匠》出版。系列图书产生重大影响,正如《纽约时报》所评:“堪称多年来兼具全球影响和人文风格的成长小说杰作!”
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"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.
读起《安琪拉的灰烬》,总会不由自主的想起高尔基的《童年》。同样是回忆童年,主人公都在艰难的情况下长大,经历了无数的坎坷苦难,正如作者所说:“当我回首童年,我总奇怪自己竟然活了下来”,由此可见成长的艰辛。 作者讲述了一个爱尔兰天主教徒的悲惨童年:家庭贫...
评分读起《安琪拉的灰烬》,总会不由自主的想起高尔基的《童年》。同样是回忆童年,主人公都在艰难的情况下长大,经历了无数的坎坷苦难,正如作者所说:“当我回首童年,我总奇怪自己竟然活了下来”,由此可见成长的艰辛。 作者讲述了一个爱尔兰天主教徒的悲惨童年:家庭贫...
评分有一位在书前的评论写道,作者经历了如此悲惨的童年还能成长,都是因为书中所描写的天使般的母亲……不知道他是否真的看了这本书,还是翻了几把就理所当然地写了下来。 书是好书,虽然主题显然没有这位作家认为得那么崇高,但比他想象的更有深意。 对于普通人来说是很难真实...
评分我不知道该怎么写,我不了解男人,无论是看一个男人的成长,还是看一个成长的男人,我总是觉得我不懂。但是,至少我明白,从苦难中爬出来的人身上寄托着多少天使给予的赐福,即使我不是个基督徒,即使我不愿意做一个唯心主义者,我也坚信,只有“天使”这个词语,才配得上自己...
评分It takes time to cure. It takes time to reflect one's life. I wonder whether the boy, who survived all the miserable childhood, felt miserable at all himself. It takes a pure heart to appreciate the beauty of life. And the true appreciation means that you n...
she ain't angle, she's a mother.
评分suffering+miserable+exam...在这个圣诞夜读的我泪流满面。memoir...
评分我看过最棒的英文小说+自传。 一本让人又哭又笑,陷入疯狂的好书!
评分summer reading书目 不错的自传 Life is hard, but you're gonna to fight for it.
评分其实没读下去.........冲动买书的后果....
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