Frank McCourt Libros

En este libro, Frank McCourt narra sus experiencias como inmigrante, cuando, a los diecinueve años, cumpliendo un sueño largamente alimentado, llega a Nueva York. Durante su primer trabajo en un hotel entra muy pronto en contacto con las estrictas jerarquías de una sociedad «supuestamente» sin clases sociales. Más tarde, tras superar toda clase de obstáculos, tiene por fin la oportunidad de acceder a la Universidad de Nueva York, donde completará sus estudios, abandonados a los catorce años, y se preparará para su futuro trabajo como profesor.Frank McCourt nos obsequia con unos extraordinarios capítulos de su vida adulta y con unas memorables lecciones de humanidad y de supervivencia, en el mismo tono entrañable y lleno de humor con el que consiguió cautivar a millones de lectores en Las cenizas de Ángela.

Dolorosa y a la vez esplendorosa biografía, en donde su autor -ganador del Pulitzer por este impactante libro- se remonta a Limerick, un pueblo de Irlanda sumido en la pobreza. De allí, a la América durante la Gran Depresión, y el choque entre las realidades y sus fallidas promesas. La única esperanza de Ángela está en la educación de sus cinco hijos, Frank McCourt entre ellos.

The sequel to Frank McCourt's memoir of his Irish Catholic boyhood, Angela's Ashes , picks up the story in October 1949, upon his arrival in America. Though he was born in New York, the family had returned to Ireland due to poor prospects in the United States. Now back on American soil, this awkward 19-year-old, with his "pimply face, sore eyes, and bad teeth," has little in common with the healthy, self-assured college students he sees on the subway and dreams of joining in the classroom. Initially, his American experience is as harrowing as his impoverished youth in Ireland, including two of the grimmest Christmases ever described in literature. McCourt views the U.S. through the same sharp eye and with the same dark humor that distinguished his first memoir: race prejudice, casual cruelty, and dead-end jobs weigh on his spirits as he searches for a way out. A glimpse of hope comes from the army, where he acquires some white-collar skills, and from New York University, which admits him without a high school diploma. But the journey toward his position teaching creative writing at Stuyvesant High School is neither quick nor easy. Fortunately, McCourt's openness to every variety of human emotion and longing remains exceptional; even the most damaged, difficult people he encounters are richly rendered individuals with whom the reader can't help but feel uncomfortable kinship. The magical prose, with its singing Irish cadences, brings grandeur and beauty to the most sorrowful events, including the final scene, set in a Limerick graveyard. --Wendy Smith

El relato empieza cuando McCourt tiene 27 años e, instalado en Nueva York, inicia una actividad académica para la cual sus estudios universitarios no han acabado de formarle. En efecto, las realidades sociales en un entorno tan duro como el neoyorquino resultan difíciles de digerir por parte de este inmigrante irlandés. Haciendo más caso a su intuición y a lo que le dicta su conciencia que a las directrices académicas, consigue despertar el interés de sus alumnos. Para ello, decide bajarse del pedestal en el que viven instalados la mayoría de profesores y se dedica a escuchar a sus alumnos y a aprender de ellos, poniéndose a su altura para conocer sus inquietudes, sus gustos y su forma de ver el mundo.

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.

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.

'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' adopts a militant approach to punctuation and attempts to recruit an army of vigilantes who will send letters back with the punctuation corrected, not accept sloppy emails, and climb ladders with pots of paint to remove redundant apostrophes from signs.