Frank McCourt

The author recounts his childhood in Depression-era Brooklyn as the child of Irish immigrants who decide to return to worse poverty in Ireland when his infant sister dies

A Memoir

Angela's Ashes

Der autobiographische Roman erzählt in ergreifenden und grotesk-komischen Szenen vom verzweifelten Kampf eines irischen Jungen, dem sozialen Elend seiner Familie in den 30er und 40er Jahren zu entfliehen.

irische Erinnerungen

Die Asche meiner Mutter

Jane Rollason

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.

Frank McCourt'un çocukluğunu anlatan Angela'nın Külleri dünyanın her yerinde büyük bir okuyucu kitlesi tarafından okundu ve çok sevildi. Büyük bir yoksulluğu anlattığı halde, McCourt'un kalemindeki sevecenlik ve ince mizah, satırların arasından sızan umutla birleşince, ortaya bir kurtuluş, bir başarı öyküsü çıkmıştı. Kitap birçok ödül aldı (Pulitzer Ödülü - Ulusal Kitap Kriterleri Çevresi Ödülü - Los Angeles Times Kitap Ödülü). Pek çok dilde defalarca basıldı. Umuda Doğru işte bu öykünün devamı; Frankie'nin yoksul bir göçmenden pırıl pırıl bir öğretmene ve mükemmel bir yazara dönüştüğü Amerika serüvenini anlatıyor. Frank, büyük çabalardan sonra on dokuz yaşında, New York'a gelmeyi başarır. Gemide tanıştığı bir papaz ona Biltmore Oteli'nde bir iş bulur. Otelde çalışırken, bu 'sınıfsız' ülkedeki çarpıcı sınıflandırmayla tanışacaktır. Umuda doğru, Frank McCourt'un Amerika'da yaşadıklarını, olağanüstü insancıl bir mizaha sararak büyüleyici bir dille anlattığı bir öykü. Kitap "Angela'nın Külleri"'nin devamı niteliğindedir.

Angela'nın Külleri 2 - Umuda Doğru

C. V. Letizia

Siamo negli anni fra le due guerre e le travagliate vicende coinvolgono una famiglia cosÃ¬ misera che puÃ² guardare dal basso la povertÃ , fra un padre perennemente ebbro e vociferante contro il mondo, gli inglesi e i protestanti, e una madre che sbrigativamente trascina la sua tribÃ¹ 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 comicitÃ e vitalitÃ contagiose, dove tutte le atrocitÃ diventano episodi e apparizioni di un viaggio battuto dal vento verso la terra promessa. Annotation Supplied by Informazioni Editoriali

Le ceneri di Angela

Tag und Nacht und auch im Sommer

Angela"s Ashes. A Memoir of a Childhood

As cinzas de Angela: uma infância irlandesa

The author's memoir of his journey from impoverished Irish immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur.

'Tis

就是这儿. 2

安琪拉的灰烬

Le vicende di una famiglia irlandese negli anni tra le due guerre narrate da un protagonista giovane e sfrontato, che osserva il miserrimo mondo circostante con occhio attento e spietato. La povertà e le privazioni, anche più tremende, acquistano così il ritmo comico e l’irresistibile vitalità che solo il racconto di un bambino è in grado di esprimere.

Nach äDie Asche meiner Mutterä und äEin rundherum tolles Landä der abschliessende Band der Lebenserinnerungen des irisch-amerikanischen Autors. Er schildert seine Erfahrungen in 30 Jahren als Lehrer an New Yorker Schulen und wie er letztendlich zum international erfolgreichen Schriftsteller wurde.

Erinnerungen

Las Cenizas De Angela/Angelas Ashes

Nearly a decade ago Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at the age of sixty-six, he burst onto the literary scene with Angela's Ashes, the Pulitzer Prize -- winning memoir of his childhood in Limerick, Ireland. Then came 'Tis, his glorious account of his early years in New York. Now, here at last, is McCourt's long-awaited book about how his thirty-year teaching career shaped his second act as a writer. Teacher Man is also an urgent tribute to teachers everywhere. In bold and spirited prose featuring his irreverent wit and heartbreaking honesty, McCourt records the trials, triumphs and surprises he faces in public high schools around New York City. His methods anything but conventional, McCourt creates a lasting impact on his students through imaginative assignments (he instructs one class to write "An Excuse Note from Adam or Eve to God"), singalongs (featuring recipe ingredients as lyrics), and field trips (imagine taking twenty-nine rowdy girls to a movie in Times Square!). McCourt struggles to find his way in the classroom and spends his evenings drinking with writers and dreaming of one day putting his own story to paper. Teacher Man shows McCourt developing his unparalleled 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. McCourt's rocky marriage, his failed attempt to get a Ph.D. at Trinity College, Dublin, and his repeated firings due to his propensity to talk back to his superiors ironically lead him to New York's most prestigious school, Stuyvesant High School, where he finally finds a place and a voice. "Doggedness," he says, is "not as glamorous as ambition or talent or intellect or charm, but still the one thing that got me through the days and nights." For McCourt, storytelling itself is the source of salvation, and in Teacher Man the journey to redemption -- and literary fame -- is an exhilarating adventure.

Teacher Man

When six-year-old Angela decides that the uncovered baby Jesus is cold in his manger in the church, she takes him home to warm him up, little guessing the trouble that will follow.

(Adult Edition)

Angela and the Baby Jesus

''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.

Ein rundherum tolles Land

Laura Wittner

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

El profesor

Teacher Man Hb Poster

Malachy McCourt

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.

The Photographs of Jill Freedman

Ireland Ever

The Spanish edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller, TIS is the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant with rotten teeth, infected eyes, and no formal education to brilliant raconteur and schoolteacher. Saved first by a straying priest, then by the Democratic party, then by the United States Army, then by New York University-- which admitted him on a trial basis, though he had no high school diploma-- Frank had the same vulnerable but invincible spirit at nineteen that he had at eight, and still has today. And TIS is a tale of survival as vivid, harrowing, and often hilarious as ANGELA'S ASHES. Yet again, it is through the power of storytelling that Frank finds a life for himself. TIS blesses readers with another chapter of McCourt's story, but as it closes, they will want still more.

Frank McCourt

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