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.
Sticklers unite! The Queen of Zero Tolerance takes on the sorry state of modern manners, in the spirit of her three million copy worldwide bestseller, Eats, Shoots & Leaves. "Talk to the hand 'cause the face ain't listening," the saying goes. When did the world get to be so rude? When did society become so inconsiderate? It's a topic that has been simmering for years, and Lynne Truss says that it has now reached boiling point. Taking on the boorish behaviour that has become a point of pride for some, Talk to the Hand is a rallying cry for courtesy. Like Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Talk to the Hand is a spirited conversation, not a stuffy guidebook. It is not about forks, for a start. Why hasn't your nephew ever thanked you for that perfect Christmas present? What makes your builder think he can treat you like dirt in your own home? When you phone a utility with a complaint (and have negotiated the switchboard), why can't you ever speak to a person who is authorised to apologise? What accounts for the appalling treatment you receive in shops? Most important, what will it take to roll back a culture that applauds rudeness and finds it so amusing? For anyone who's fed up with the brutality inflicted by modern manners (and is naturally too scared to confront the actual yobs), Talk to the Hand is a colourful call to arms - from the wittiest defender of the civilised world.
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.
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 gestaltet sich äußerst schwierig. Es gibt kaum Arbeit und zu allem Überdruss vertrinkt Franks Vater das Geld, das die Familie so dringend zum Leben braucht.
Tijdens een hevige regenbui maakt de zesentwintigjarige Julian Rose bij toeval kennis met Claire Marvel, studente kunstgeschiedenis. Een halfuur lang staan ze naast elkaar onder haar paraplu op de trap van een museum. Deze ontmoeting is het begin van een grote, gecompliceerde liefde en zal het verloop van hun beider levens bepalen. De intense maar grillige relatie van Julian en Claire beleeft een hoogtepunt tijdens een vakantie in Frankrijk, maar doordat ze niet bij macht zijn hun gevoelens voor elkaar uit te spreken, komt het tot een abrupte breuk - voorgoed, zo lijkt het. Ze overwinnen hun verdriet trouwen allebei met een ander en hebben geen contact meer met elkaar. Maar vergeten doen ze elkaar niet.Twaalf jaar later lopen ze elkaar in New York weer tegen het lijf. Vier maanden na deze ontmoeting hoort Julian dat Cliare is verdronken in een rivier in Frankrijk, niet ver van de plaats waar zij samen hun idyllische vakantie hebben gehouden. Julian is verslagen en niet meer in staat zijn zorgvuldig opgebouwde schijnbestaan voort te zetten. Hij vertrekt naar Frankrijk om te achterhalen wat er precies met Claire is gebeurd.Claire is een verhaal over de veelheid van emoties die een intense verhouding kan losmaken - zoals de angst je over te leveren aan een ander.
