Cet auteur explore les complexités de l'enfance et de l'adolescence à travers des œuvres autobiographiques. Son écriture est réputée pour son réalisme brut et son aperçu perçant des difficultés sociales et économiques. À travers sa prose, il capture la vulnérabilité et la résilience de l'esprit humain face à l'adversité. Ses récits constituent un puissant reflet des expériences des immigrés et des défis rencontrés par ceux qui aspirent à une vie meilleure.
« Quand je revois mon enfance, le seul fait d'avoir survécu m'étonne. Ce fut, bien sûr, une enfance misérable : l'enfance heureuse vaut rarement qu'on s'y arrête. Pire que l'enfance misérable ordinaire est l'enfance misérable en Irlande. Et pire encore est l'enfance misérable en Irlande catholique ».
New York, des années 1960 aux années 1990. Après avoir exercé différents métiers, F. McCourt se décide à utiliser son diplôme d'enseignant. Premier poste : un lycée technique de Staten Island. Quelle attitude adopter face à ces élèves particulièrement difficiles? L'auteur relate son parcours d'enseignant.
The sequel to Frank McCourt's memoir begins in October 1949, when he returns to America at 19, having previously moved to Ireland due to his family's struggles. Now back in New York, he feels out of place among confident college students, burdened by his "pimply face, sore eyes, and bad teeth." His early American experiences mirror the hardships of his youth in Ireland, marked by two of the bleakest Christmases ever depicted. With his characteristic sharp eye and dark humor, McCourt explores themes of race prejudice, casual cruelty, and dead-end jobs, all while seeking a way forward. A glimmer of hope emerges through the army, where he gains valuable skills, and New York University, which accepts him despite his lack of a high school diploma. However, his path to becoming a creative writing teacher at Stuyvesant High School is fraught with challenges. McCourt's ability to capture a wide range of human emotions makes even the most troubled individuals relatable. His lyrical prose, infused with Irish cadences, elevates even the most sorrowful moments, culminating in a poignant final scene set in a Limerick graveyard.
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.
The international bestseller - at last in paperback and with a new introduction. A witty, entertaining, impassioned guide to perfect punctuation, for everyone who cares about precise writing. When social histories come to be written of the first decade of the 21st century, people will note a turning point in 2003 when declining standards of punctuation were reversed. Linguists will record Lynne Truss as the saviour of the semi-colon and the avenging angel of the apostrophe. 'If Lynne Truss were Roman Catholic I'd nominate her for sainthood' Frank McCourt 'This book will stimulate and satisfy. It's worth its weight in gold.' Boyd Tonkin, Independent 'A witty, elegant and passionate book that should be on every writer's shelf' Observer 'Lynne Truss deserves to be piled high with honours ...' John Humphrys 'It can only be a matter of time before the new government seizes the chance to appoint her as minister for punctuation. The manifesto is already written.' Guardian 'She's a soul sister. She's one of us.' Richard Madeley, Richard and Judy
A serial novel by 15 of the brightest talents in Irish writing (including Marian Keyes, Pauline McLynn, Gina Moxley and Frank McCourt), telling an elaborate tale of murder, mayhem and literary shenanigans in present-day Dublin. Approximately £1 from every copy sold will go to Amnesty International.
