Frank McCourt was born in 1930 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 New York City high schools. His first book, "Angela's Ashes,"...

„’Tis“ ist die Fortsetzung des autobiografischen Werkes „Angela’s Ashes“ von Frank McCourt. In diesem Buch beschreibt McCourt seine Erlebnisse als junger Mann, nachdem er in den späten 1940er Jahren aus Irland nach Amerika ausgewandert...

"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish...

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...

"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish...

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...