Frank McCourt Libri

Siamo negli anni fra le due guerre e le travagliate vicende coinvolgono una famiglia così misera che può guardare dal basso la povertà , fra un padre perennemente ebbro e vociferante contro il mondo, gli inglesi e i protestanti, e una madre che sbrigativamente trascina la sua tribù verso la sopravvivenza. Tutto ci arriva attraverso gli occhi e la voce del protagonista mentre vive le sue avventure. Questo ragazzino indistruttibile, sfrontato, refrattario a ogni sentimentalismo, implacabile osservatore crea con le sue parole un prodigio di comicità e vitalità contagiose, dove tutte le atrocità diventano episodi e apparizioni di un viaggio battuto dal vento verso la terra promessa. Annotation Supplied by Informazioni Editoriali

Vista dal parapetto di un bastimento, l’America era sembrata al giovane McCourt l’immagine stessa del riscatto da quell’«infanzia infelice, irlandese e cattolica» che nelle Ceneri di Angela ci era stata raccontata come il più atroce, oltreché il più ilare, dei mondi possibili. Qui la scena, diversa e più tumultuosa, è invece quella di New York nel secondo dopoguerra. Una New York proletaria, dove fra case di mattoni rossi, pub di emigrati irlandesi e banchine ingombre di merci, con la quinta lontana e irraggiungibile di Manhattan, Frankie si trova a percorrere, passo dopo passo, un faticosissimo apprendistato. Inserviente in un grande e lussuoso albergo, militare durante la guerra di Corea, scaricatore di porto e infine insegnante – in aule e fra scolaresche che ricordano piuttosto da vicino le rumorose classi di Limerick –, McCourt mantiene prodigiosamente intatto il suo timbro inconfondibile, e la capacità di trasformare qualsiasi fatto, le avances di un prete alticcio come l’arrivo di Angela dall’Irlanda, quattro chiacchiere con i vecchi lustrascarpe italiani di Staten Island come il ritorno in patria e l’incontro col padre, in una grande, irresistibile storia: «Prendemmo tè e panini e Phil tirò fuori una bottiglia di whiskey ... perché il giorno in cui seppellisci i tuoi morti non c’è nient’altro da fare». Che paese, l’America è apparso per la prima volta nel 1999.

3 Book Set. After Frank McCourt wrote the award winning Angela's Ashes he went on to write these two subsequent books about his life.

A photographic portrait of the Irish landscape and its people commemorates traditional regional life with a range of duotone photographs, complemented with texts by best-selling Irish-American authors including Angela's Ashes's Frank McCourt and Singing My Him Song's, Malachy McCourt. 35,000 first printing.

Korean edition of a New York Times bestseller and the Pulitzer Prize-winning book ANGELA'S ASHES: A Memoir by Frank McCourt. Despite extreme poverty and desperation of his childhood McCourt recounts his early age in an affecting and uplifting voice in this luminous memoir. Translated by Kim Lucia. In Korean. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

"When my mother, Angela, was six years old, she felt sorry for the Baby Jesus in the Christmas crib at St. Joseph's Church near School House Lane where she lived...."* * * *Frank McCourt's Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir "Angela's Ashes" is a modern classic. Now he has written a captivating Christmas story about Angela as a child -- often cold and hungry herself -- compelled to rescue the Baby Jesus and take him home. This story is pure McCourt -- genuine, irreverent and moving.It is elegantly illustrated by two-time Golden Kite Award winner Loren Long and is the perfect Christmas story for all ages.

Sticklers unite! The Queen of Zero Tolerance takes on the sorry state of modern manners, in the spirit of her three million copy worldwide bestseller, Eats, Shoots & Leaves. "Talk to the hand 'cause the face ain't listening," the saying goes. When did the world get to be so rude? When did society become so inconsiderate? It's a topic that has been simmering for years, and Lynne Truss says that it has now reached boiling point. Taking on the boorish behaviour that has become a point of pride for some, Talk to the Hand is a rallying cry for courtesy. Like Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Talk to the Hand is a spirited conversation, not a stuffy guidebook. It is not about forks, for a start. Why hasn't your nephew ever thanked you for that perfect Christmas present? What makes your builder think he can treat you like dirt in your own home? When you phone a utility with a complaint (and have negotiated the switchboard), why can't you ever speak to a person who is authorised to apologise? What accounts for the appalling treatment you receive in shops? Most important, what will it take to roll back a culture that applauds rudeness and finds it so amusing? For anyone who's fed up with the brutality inflicted by modern manners (and is naturally too scared to confront the actual yobs), Talk to the Hand is a colourful call to arms - from the wittiest defender of the civilised world.

Available at last in paperback is Frank McCourt's critically acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller about how his 30-year teaching career in the public schools of New York City shaped his second act as a writer.

A serial novel by 15 of the brightest talents in Irish writing (including Marian Keyes, Pauline McLynn, Gina Moxley and Frank McCourt), telling an elaborate tale of murder, mayhem and literary shenanigans in present-day Dublin. Approximately #1 from every copy sold will go to Amnesty International.

Der kleine Frank erzählt die Geschichte seiner irisch-katholischen Familie, die dem tristen Leben im New York der 1930er entflieht und in der jungen Republik Irland einen Neustart wagt. Limerick wird ihre neue Heimat, doch das Leben dort gestaltet sich äußerst schwierig. Es gibt kaum Arbeit und zu allem Überdruss vertrinkt Franks Vater das Geld, das die Familie so dringend zum Leben braucht.

The sequel to Frank McCourt's memoir picks up in October 1949, when he returns to America after his family had moved back to Ireland due to poor prospects. Now an awkward 19-year-old with a "pimply face, sore eyes, and bad teeth," he feels out of place among the confident college students he encounters. His American experience is initially as harrowing as his impoverished youth in Ireland, marked by two of the bleakest Christmases ever depicted. McCourt's sharp eye and dark humor illuminate the challenges he faces, including race prejudice, casual cruelty, and dead-end jobs, as he seeks a way out. A glimmer of hope emerges through the army, where he gains white-collar skills, and New York University, which accepts him without a high school diploma. However, his path to teaching creative writing at Stuyvesant High School is fraught with difficulties. McCourt's exceptional openness to human emotion allows even the most troubled individuals he meets to be richly portrayed, fostering a sense of uncomfortable kinship. His magical prose, infused with Irish cadences, elevates even the most sorrowful events, culminating in a poignant final scene in a Limerick graveyard.