Frank McCourt Libri

Non capita spesso che la passione, condivisa da innumerevoli lettori, per il libro di uno sconosciuto si manifesti con tanta, travolgente, immediatezza. E dire che Frank McCourt, un sessantenne al suo esordio letterario, aveva previsto che Le ceneri di Angel a sarebbe stato definito «come per lo più avviene con i libri irlandesi di memorie, “incantevole e lirico”» e che avrebbe avuto come unico esito un certo numero di «brevi e simpatiche recensioni». Ma che cosa incontriamo nelle pagine delle Ceneri di Angela ? La storia di «un’infanzia infelice irlandese», il che «è peggio di un’infanzia infelice qualunque, e un’infanzia infelice irlandese e cattolica è peggio ancora». Siamo negli anni fra le due guerre e le travagliate vicende coinvolgono una famiglia così misera che può guardare dal basso alla povertà, fra un padre perennemente ebbro e vociferante contro il mondo e gli inglesi e i protestanti e una madre che sbrigativamente trascina la sua tribù verso la sopravvivenza. Materiale pregiato per ogni sorta di patetismo. E invece qui avviene uno stupendo rovesciamento. 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 – come solo certi bambini sanno esserlo –, crea con le sue parole, con il suo ritmo, un prodigio di comicità e vitalità contagiose, dove tutte le atrocità, pur senza perdere nulla della loro spesso lugubre asprezza, diventano episodi e apparizioni di un viaggio battuto dal vento verso una terra promessa che sarà, nei sogni infantili di quegli anni come in quelli del Karl Rossmann di Kafka, l’America. Le ceneri di Angela è apparso per la prima volta nel 1996.

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.

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.

'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' adopts a militant approach to punctuation and attempts to recruit an army of vigilantes who will send letters back with the punctuation corrected, not accept sloppy emails, and climb ladders with pots of paint to remove redundant apostrophes from signs.

A retelling of Frank McCourt's book describing his own coming of age, as a teacher, a storyteller and a writer. With a predisposition to support the underdog, and with sympathies for students rather than administrators, McCourt has always used stories to help his pupils.

FROM THE PULIZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE #1 "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER "ANGELA'S ASHES" Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, "Angela's Ashes, " has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the "Los Angeles Times" Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Rarely has a book so swiftly found its place on the literary landscape. And now we have "'Tis, " the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. Frank lands in New York at age nineteen and gets a job at the Biltmore Hotel, where he immediately encounters the vivid hierarchies of this "classless country," and then is drafted into the army and is sent to Germany to train dogs and type reports. It is Frank's incomparable voice that renders these experiences spellbinding. When Frank returns to America in 1953, he works on the docks, always resisting what everyone tells him. He knows that he should be getting an education, and though he left school at fourteen, he talks his way into New York University. There, he falls in love with the quintessential Yankee and tries to live his dream. But it is not until he starts to teach that Frank finds his place in the world.

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.