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Autobiografisch relaas waarin een gepensioneerde Amerikaanse onderwijzer zijn jeugd in het Ierse Limerick in de jaren '30 en '40 beschrijft vanuit het perspectief van het kind dat hij was.

Herinneringen van de Iers-Amerikaanse schrijver aan zijn dertigjarig leraarschap aan verschillende scholen in New York.

Autobiografisch relaas over het leven van een Ier in het New York van de jaren 1950-1985. In De nieuwe wereld beschrijft Frank McCourt de tweede helft van zijn leven, wanneer hij terugkeert naar de Verenigde Staten en zijn weg zoekt in de keiharde Amerikaanse maatschappij. Frank McCourt woont en werkt in New York. In 1997 won hij de Pulitzer Prize voor De as van mijn moeder.

Vijftien Ierse auteurs. Moord en doodslag, onveilige seks, schoonmaakartikelen en een gestolen manuscript. En een goed doel. Doodslag in Dublin is een zeer bijzondere, geestige en briljante literaire thriller; als ook een combinatie van satire en hilarische serie-roman. Het goede doel: een belangrijk deel van de opbrengst van het boek zal naar Amnesty International gaan. Vanaf het eerste hoofdstuk. geschreven door niemand minder dan Roddy Doyle, tot en met het laatste, van de hand van Frank McCourt, wordt de lezer in Doodslag in Dublin meegevoerd op een onvergetelijke speurtocht naar een literaire schat met een geheime formule.

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.

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.