Frank McCourt

McCourt’s Pulitzer Prize winning look back at his childhood. “It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while…” “When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is...

Der Amerikaner mit der unglücklichen irischen katholischen Kindheit hat dreißig Jahre lang an New Yorker Schulen unterrichtet. Im dritten Teil seiner Memoiren erzählt er, was er von seinen rund zwölftausend Schülern gelernt hat und wie er seine Stimme fand: als Lehrer, als...

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...

En este magnífico audiolibro se narran los duros comienzos de una familia emigrante irlandesa, vista a través de un niño. Por ello, el oyente se encontrará con grandes dosis de humor y compasión transmitidos a través de su autor, Frank McCourt. Es una extraordinaria obra....

En este magnífico audiolibro se narran los duros comienzos de una familia emigrante irlandesa, vista a través de un niño. Es una extraordinaria obra donde Frank McCourt nos muestra el amor, la dignidad, y el humor de una infancia marcada por el hambre, la muerte, y el dolor....

"The next best thing to not having a brother (as I do not) is to have Brothers." (Gay Talese) Here is a tapestry of stories about the complex and unique relationship that exists between brothers. In this book, some of our finest authors take an unvarnished look at how brothers admire and...