New Releases by Frank McCourt

A treasure chest of never-before-collected essays from Frank McCourt, Pulitzer Prize-winning memoirist, and his boisterous brother Malachy, publishing on the 30th anniversary of Angela''s Ashes, with a foreword by Colum McCann In 1996, a retired New York City high school English teacher published a memoir that took the publishing world by storm. Angela''s Ashes, the story of Frank McCourt''s childhood in Ireland, was a bold account of poverty and family tragedy, suffused with humor and compassion. It went on to sell over ten million copies and won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award. Frank McCourt was suddenly an internationally celebrated memoirist, a writer who had invigorated the genre. But most readers didn''t know that Angela''s Ashes wasn''t Frank''s first published writing. For years, he and his actor brother Malachy contributed a column to a neighborhood newspaper called The West Side Spirit. Malachy, himself a bestselling writer, also contributed to Our Town, Irish America, and The Southampton Review. And Frank went on to write for prominent publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Esquire, Life, and Rolling Stone. Sez I To Myself collects the best of those essays and works of journalism. Here the brothers McCourt tackle parades and pubs, classrooms and churches, the immigrant experience, loss, 9/11, the writing life, and more. This is a charming, tender, and insightful collection, a welcome new book from two masterful and much-loved writers.

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.

Una edición especial limitada y numerada para celebrar el 20o aniversario de uno de los mayores éxitos de las últimas décadas, con más de 17 millones de ejemplares vendidos.

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Negli anni Cinquanta, i cieli delle città americane (e anche gli schermi dei relativi cinema) pullulavano di oggetti volanti non identificati. L’oggetto che il primo giorno di scuola attraversa il cielo della classe, sotto gli occhi attoniti del professor Frank McCourt, è invece identificabilissimo – in un panino che l’immancabile mamma italiana ha farcito, a beneficio del suo pupo, con peperoni, cipolla, formaggio fuso e mortadella. Se la prima inquadratura del libro risulta quantomeno inattesa, l’epilogo della sequenza, col professore che raccoglie il panino e lo mangia lentamente davanti alla scolaresca annichilita, è destinato a restare. E a farci vivere il clima delle trentatremila ore di lezione (cifre dell’autore) che McCourt terrà nei tre decenni successivi, in varie scuole – tecniche e non – sparse fra Brooklyn, Manhattan e Staten Island. Per ragioni di spazio non tutti i dodicimila rissosi e pestiferi studenti di McCourt compaiono qui – ma la loro fragorosa presenza, filtrata dalla psiche sovraesposta del docente, ci assale e ci delizia. E se i lettori delle "Ceneri di Angela" e di "Che paese, l’America" sanno già cosa aspettarsi da McCourt in termini di sarcasmo, empatia e comicità allo stato puro, quelli di "Ehi, prof!" scopriranno come i tre elementi possano fondersi a caldo in un genere completamente nuovo, che difficilmente troverà, in futuro, epigoni all’altezza.

„‘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.

Frank McCourts Erinnerungen an seine Jahre als Lehrer Dreißig Jahre lang hat Frank McCourt, der Amerikaner mit der unglücklichen irischen katholischen Kindheit, in New Yorker Schulen unterrichtet. Jetzt erzählt er, was er von seinen insgesamt zwölftausend Schülern gelernt hat – als Lehrer, als Geschichtenerzähler, als Schriftsteller. Ein Buch, wie man es liebt, aber selten findet: voll Witz und Charme, voll Verzweiflung, Ironie und Lebensweisheit.

Crónica sobre los desafíos a los que debió enfrentarse como profesor en colegios de Nueva York, durante treinta años.

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.

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.

Simplified Chinese edition of a New York Times bestseller and the Pulitzer Prize-winning book ANGELA''S ASHES: A Memoir (Part 1 of 3) 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. In Simplified Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Après avoir enchaîné les petits métiers, Frank McCourt se décide enfin à utiliser son diplôme d''enseignant. Premier poste : un lycée technique de Staten Island ; premiers élèves : des fauves. Quelle attitude adopter ?. Au risque de fâcher sa hiérarchie, Frank choisit la ruse. Les élèves font des batailles de sandwichs? Il les attrape au vol et les mange. Ils sont régulièrement en retard ? Il y voit une occasion de leur enseigner l''écriture en leur faisant rédiger les excuses d''Ève ou de Judas. Ils n''écoutent pas en cours ? Il les intrigue, les étonne, les subjugue grâce à des anecdotes sur son enfance irlandaise, histoires qui vont captiver les élèves les plus rétifs et bouleverser des générations de lecteurs du monde entier

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 beautifully illustrated Christmas story from one of the world''s most loved writers.

Un conmovedor cuento de Navidad, lleno de ternura y magia, firmado por la mano maestra del autor de Las cenizas de Ángela.Es Navidad en la gélida ciudad irlandesa de Limerick, y la pequeña Ángela, de seis años, piensa que el niño Jesús debe estar pasando mucho frío en la iglesia. Así que se lo lleva cariñosamente en brazos hasta el calor de su casa. Su hermano la descubre y se lo cuenta todo a su madre. Afortunadamente para Ángela, la madre no se lo cree y el Niño Jesús puede seguir arropado en su cama, resguardado del terrible frío que asola la ciudad. Pero en la iglesia el párroco no tarda en descubrir la misteriosa desaparición y avisa a la policía. ¿Quién habrá sido capaz de cometer semejante robo?

"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.

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, ganador del premio Pulitzer, escribe su autobiografía en la que el esfuerzo y la tenacidad lo llevan a alcanzar sus objetivos.

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.

İrlandalı Katolik bir çocuǧun anılarını konu alan otobiyografik roman

A Memoir, about Irish Americans.

Las cenizas de Ángela es una crónica de adultos a merced de la vida y de niños a merced de los adultos . Es por otra parte, una amalgama tal de patetismo y humor que uno nunca sabe si llorar o reír.