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''På en prosa som är bildmässig och förnimbar, lyrisk men konkret, gör McCourt med Limerick vad den unge Joyce gjorde för Dublin: han frammanar platsen för oss med sådan förtrolighet att vi känner att vi gått omkring på dess gator och raglat runt ...

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"<P>"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 ...

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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 and...

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A third memoir from the author of the huge international bestsellers Angelas Ashes and Tis. In Teacher Man, Frank McCourt details his illustrious, amusing, and sometimes rather bumpy long years as an English teacher in the public high schools of N...

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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.

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Frank McCourt continues his life story in the brilliant, bestselling sequel to the million-selling Angelas Ashes. Angelas Ashes was a publishing phenomenon. Frank McCourts critically-acclaimed, lyrical memoir of his Limerick childhood won the Puli...

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

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Frank McCourt's sequel to his Pulitzer Prize winning memoir Angela's Ashes, focussing on the "e;great country"e;, AmericaAngela's Ashes was a publishing phenomenon. Frank McCourt's critically acclaimed, lyrical memoir of his Limerick child...

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A third memoir from the author of the huge international bestsellers Angela?s Ashes and ?Tis. In Teacher Man, Frank McCourt reads his own account of his illustrious, amusing, and sometimes rather bumpy long years as an English teacher in the publi...

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Characters: 2 male Bare stage A Couple of Blaguards, a two-man show by literary greats Frank and Malachy McCourt, is a bubbling stew of their well-known humor with a dash of poignancy to sharpen the flavor. A comedic springboard for Angela's ...

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"The internet as we know it is broken. Here's how we can seize back control of our lives from the corporate algorithms that have poisoned our digital information system and create a third-generation Internet that uplifts humanity-before it's ...

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Born in depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants, Frank McCourt experienced a childhood fraught with poverty and occasional cruelty. When the family moves back to Limerick, Frank endures the most miserable of childhoods. "Angela's A...

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Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, "Angela's Ashes," has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself is the source of salva...

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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 in city co...

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"McCourt has created an unsparing portrait of a man, and a time, that's richer and more devastating than his earlier work. 'Tis is a better book than Angela's Ashes" (Esquire). Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt's poignant memoir of his Irish...

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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 ...

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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.

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A Pulitzer Prizewinning, #1 New York Times bestseller, Angelas Ashes is Frank McCourts masterful memoir of his childhood in Ireland.When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood...

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A #1 New York Times bestseller and the eagerly anticipated sequel to the Pulitzer Prizewinning Angelas Ashes, this masterpiece from Frank McCourt tells of his American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur.Frank Mc...

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A Pulitzer Prizewinning, #1 New York Times bestseller, Angelas Ashes is Frank McCourts masterful memoir of his childhood in Ireland.When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood...

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A #1 New York Times bestseller and the eagerly anticipated sequel to the Pulitzer Prizewinning Angelas Ashes, this masterpiece from Frank McCourt tells of his American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur.Frank Mc...

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Winner of the 2007 Audie Award for Biography/Memoir and Finalist for Narration by the AuthorFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning, mega-bestselling author who wore his celebrity with extraordinary grace comes a magnificently appealing book about teachin...

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Winner of the 2007 Audie Award for Biography/Memoir and Finalist for Narration by the AuthorFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning, mega-bestselling author who wore his celebrity with extraordinary grace comes a magnificently appealing book about teachin...

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NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM, ANGELA'S CHRISTMAS The six year old Angela looks at the naked baby Jesus in her local church in Limerick, Ireland, circa 1912, and thinks he looks cold. She wonders why his mother, or one of the shephards, doesn't put ...

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McCourt verbringt seine ersten Lebensjahre als ältestes Kind einer irischen Familie in New York. Da die USA der Familie nicht den erhofften Wohlstand bringen und die jüngste Tochter Margaret aufgrund der schlechten Versorgung stirbt, geh...

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"'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 ...

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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 zwöl...

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Frank McCourts hinreißende Weihnachtsgeschichte ist zugleich eine wahre Geschichte aus der Kindheit seiner Mutter Angela, die sich zu Beginn des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts in Limerick ereignete.

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''På en prosa som är bildmässig och förnimbar, lyrisk men konkret, gör McCourt med Limerick vad den unge Joyce gjorde för Dublin: han frammanar platsen för oss med sådan förtrolighet att vi känner att vi gått omkring på dess gator och raglat runt ...

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