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...

"Angela's Ashes: The Story of an Irish Childhood" von Frank McCourt ist eine autobiografische Erzählung, die das harte Aufwachsen des Autors in den 1930er und 1940er Jahren in Limerick, Irland, beschreibt. Die Geschichte beginnt mit der...

Frank McCourt was born in 1931 in Brooklyn, New York, to Irish immigrant parents; grew up in Limerick, Ireland, and returned to America in 1949. For thirty years he taught in various New York City high schools, including Stuyvesant, and...

Stunning reissue of the phenomenal worldwide bestseller: Frank McCourt's sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s.It is a story of extreme hardship and suffering, in Brooklyn tenements...

Available at last in paperback is Frank McCourt's critically acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller about how his 30-year teaching career in the public schools of New York City shaped his second act as a writer. von Mccourt, Frank

"Tis: A Memoir" von Frank McCourt ist die Fortsetzung seines preisgekrönten Buches "Angela's Ashes". In diesem autobiografischen Werk beschreibt McCourt seine Erfahrungen als junger irischer Einwanderer in Amerika. Nach seiner Ankunft in...