Most Popular Books by Frank McCourt

A Memoir, about Irish Americans.

"Teacher Man" shows McCourt developing his ability to tell a great story as, five days a week, five periods per day, he works to gain the attention and respect of unruly, hormonally charged or indifferent adolescents.

Frank McCourt''s glorious childhood memoir, Angela''s Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself is the source of salvation, 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, in the company of a priest he meets on the boat. He 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 -- his uncanny humor and his astonishing ear for dialogue -- that renders these experiences spellbinding. When Frank returns to America in 1953, he works on the docks, always resisting what everyone tells him, that men and women who have dreamed and toiled for years to get to America should "stick to their own kind" once they arrive. Somehow, Frank 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, long-legged and blonde, and tries to live his dream. But it is not until he starts to teach -- and to write -- that Frank finds his place in the world. The same vulnerable but invincible spirit that captured the hearts of readers in Angela''s Ashes comes of age. As Malcolm Jones said in his Newsweek review of Angela''s Ashes, "It is only the best storyteller who can so beguile his readers that he leaves them wanting more when he is done...and McCourt proves himself one of the very best." Frank McCourt''s ''Tis is one of the most eagerly awaited books of our time, and it is a masterpiece.

En cada pagina abunda el incomparable sentido del humor y la compasion de Frank McCourt. Con todas las cualidades de una obra clasica, "Las cenizas de Angela" esta ahora disponible en edicion rustica en español. Esta autobiografia ganadora del Premio Pulitzer y de gran exito de ventas internatcional trasciende las fronteras culturales y linguisticas con su narracion sobre la infancia, la pobreza y las relaciones familiares.

The inspiration for the Emmy-nominated film and its companion Angela’s Christmas Wish, now streaming on Netflix! Pulitzer Prize recipient Frank McCourt shares the story of his mother’s childhood Christmas in this tender and heartwarming picture book, previously published as Angela and the Baby Jesus. Angela is six-years-old and worries for the baby Jesus on the altar of St. Joseph’s church in Limerick. December nights are damp and cold, and the church is dark at night. How can the baby Jesus’ mother leave him in the manger without even a blanket to cover him? The baby Jesus surely needs Angela’s help, even if she is not allowed to go on the altar, especially by herself. Filled with the characters, incident, and detail that have made Frank McCourt internationally renowned and beloved, Angela’s Christmas is a timeless story of real life—in all of its joy, innocence, and incongruity. A story for all generations to enjoy and cherish.

A play written by brothers Frank and Malachy McCourt about growing up in Limerick, Ireland, and their journey to Brooklyn, New York, where they learn to incorporate the lessons learned from their hard Irish past.

Los millones de lectores que amaron la memoria increíble de la obra "las cenizas de Ángela", amarán también el presente libro. A través de sus páginas, el autor nos presenta esta historia sobre el viaje, físico y sicológico, de un improvisado inmigrante a brillante narrador y maestro de escuela. Salvado primero por un sacerdote perdido, pasando por el partido democrático, por la Armada de Estados Unidos, hasta la universidad de Nueva York; el autor del presente texto demuestra que, a los diecinueve años, sigue manteniendo el mismo espíritu invencible que tenía a los ocho... y que todavía mantiene. El presente libro es un cuento acerca de la sobrevivencia y tan vívido y entretenido como fue el texto anterior de este mismo autor.

" Quand je revois mon enfance, le seul fait d''avoir survécu m''étonne. Ce fut, bien sûr, une enfance misérable : l''enfance heureuse vaut rarement qu''on s''y arrête. Pire que l''enfance misérable ordinaire est l''enfance misérable en Irlande. Et pire encore est l''enfance misérable en Irlande catholique. " C''est ce que décrit Frank McCourt dans ce récit autobiographique. Le père, Malachy, est un charmeur irresponsable. Quand, par chance, il trouve du travail, il va boire son salaire dans les pubs et rentre la nuit en braillant des chants patriotiques. Angela, la mère, ravale sa fierté pour mendier. Frankie, l''aîné de la fratrie, surveille les petits, fait les quatre cents coups avec ses copains. Et, surtout, observe le monde des adultes. La magie de Frank McCourt est d''avoir retrouvé son regard d''enfant, pour faire revivre le plus misérable des passés sans aucune amertume.

''''Die Asche meiner Mutter'' ist so gut - sie verdient eine Fortsetzung.'' So schrieb die New York Times über Frank McCourts Bestseller. Mit dem vorliegenden Buch erfüllte der Autor nicht nur den Wunsch seines Rezensenten, sondern auch die Hoffnungen der Millionen von begeisterten Lesern und schrieb seine Geschichte fort. ''Ein rundherum tolles Land'' beginnt dort, wo der erste Teil endet: als Frank McCourt mit 19 Jahren an Bord eines irischen Schiffes nach Amerika kommt und nichts hat als die Hoffnung auf eine bessere Zukunft. Arm, mit schlechten Zähnen und entzündeten Augen, ohne jede nennenswerte Ausbildung, erreicht er das Land seiner Träume - und muss feststellen, dass er mit seinem Aussehen und seinem irischen Akzent ein Nichts ist. Wie er sich trotz aller Widrigkeiten einen Platz im Leben erkämpft, einen Platz ''auf dem Bindestrich von Irisch-Amerika'', berichtet der große Erzähler McCourt in seiner unnachahmlichen Mischung aus Traurigkeit und Witz. Seine unglaublichen Geschichten über Priester und Jungfrauen, über irische Kneipen, bayrische Bierkeller und die merkwürdigen Sitten der Amerikaner im Allgemeinen verbinden sich zu einer augenzwinkernden Hommage an das Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten, in der ''toll'' nicht nur ''großartig'' bedeutet.

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

The author of On Writing Well presents stories and advice on the writing process from Frank McCourt, Annie Dillard, and many more. For anyone who enjoys reading memoirs—or is thinking about writing one—this collection offers a master class from nine distinguished authors: Russell Baker, Jill Ker Conway, Annie Dillard, Ian Frazier, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alfred Kazin, Frank McCourt, Toni Morrison, and Eileen Simpson. “Annie Dillard talks of her Pittsburgh childhood and her moment of waking to the world outside. Russell Baker explains why his first draft of Growing Up was so bad that he had to start over again. Alfred Kazin finds that writing about his Brooklyn childhood connected him with the great tradition of Emerson and Whitman. Toni Morrison tells why her fiction uses not only family history but the slave narratives of her people. Lewis Thomas traces the evolution of his singular self from primeval bacteria to contemporary scientist whose drive to be useful is the most fundamental of all biological necessities. . . . Delightful and instructive.” —Library Journal

In this third volume of his memoirs McCourt describes the years he spent teaching in various New York high schools.

Freedman celebrates the beauty of the land, the warmth of her people, the simplicity of the old ways, the humor and conviviality, the sharp wit and black moods, and the kindness. Her work is a love poem to a wild and passionate beauty.

This beautifully boxed collection features two bestselling modern classics: "Angela''s Ashes" and "''Tis".

"Featuring explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols including: class limitations, guilt, eggs, hunger, anti-English sentiment, folktales." -- page 4 of cover.

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Après avoir bouleversé le monde entier avec Les Cendres d''Angela, Frank McCourt poursuit son récit autobiographique dans C''est comment l''Amérique ? Un livre événement dont la parution a soulevé partout un égal enthousiasme. A dix-neuf ans, en 1949, fuyant la misère de sa jeunesse à Limerick, Franck McCourt s''embarque seul pour New York, cette terre promise. Pris en charge dès son arrivée par un vieux prêtre irlandais qui le met en garde contre cette ville dépravée, il s''enfuit à toutes jambes pour échapper aux avances du saint homme aviné. L''Amérique, il devra la conquérir seul. Tour à tour balayeur dans un hôtel de luxe, docker et gratte-papier, soldat puis jeune prof déboussolé, il va cependant découvrir un pays très éloigné de celui qu''il a rêvé... C''est comment l''Amérique ? raconte l''histoire d''une ascension extraordinaire, celle d''un émigré pauvre, sans éducation et marqué par la honte de ses origines, qui va finalement s''imposer comme un professeur hors du commun puis un des grands écrivains de cette fin de siècle. De cette aventure américaine, McCourt fait un récit inoubliable, émaillé de cocasses anecdotes et de personnages pittoresques qu''il croque avec une ironie irrésistible. Son prodigieux talent de conteur est ici intact, sa prose imagée, pleine de verve, teintée de bout en bout d''un humour mordant.