Frank McCourt

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 published a memoir that took the publishing world by storm. Angela’s Ashes, the story of Frank McCourt’s childhood in Ireland, was a bold account of poverty and family tragedy, suffused with humor and compassion. It went on to sell over ten million copies and won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award. Frank McCourt was suddenly an internationally celebrated memoirist, a writer who had invigorated the genre. But most readers didn’t know that Angela’s Ashes wasn’t Frank’s first published writing. For years, he and his actor brother Malachy contributed a column to a neighborhood newspaper called The West Side Spirit. Malachy, himself a bestselling writer, also contributed to Our Town, Irish America, and The Southampton Review. And Frank went on to write for prominent publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Esquire, Life, and Rolling Stone. Sez I To Myself collects the best of those essays and works of journalism. Here the brothers McCourt tackle parades and pubs, classrooms and churches, the immigrant experience, loss, 9/11, the writing life, and more. This is a charming, tender, and insightful collection, a welcome new book from two masterful and much-loved writers.

The inspiration for the Emmy-nominated film and its companion Angela's Christmas Wish, now streaming on Netflix Pulitzer Prize recipient Frank McCourt shares the story of his mother's childhood Christmas in this tender and heartwarming picture book, previously published as Angela and the Baby Jesus. Angela is six-years-old and worries for the baby Jesus on the altar of St. Joseph's church in Limerick. December nights are damp and cold, and the church is dark at night. How can the baby Jesus' mother leave him in the manger without even a blanket to cover him? The baby Jesus surely needs Angela's help, even if she is not allowed to go on the altar, especially by herself. Filled with the characters, incident, and detail that have made Frank McCourt internationally renowned and beloved, Angela's Christmas is a timeless story of real life--in all of its joy, innocence, and incongruity. A story for all generations to enjoy and cherish.

En gripende skildring av forfatterens egen barndom og oppvekst i Irland på 1930- og 40-tallet.Faren drikker opp de få pengene han tjener, og moren, Angela har et umenneskelig strev med å brødfø alle barna. Men tross fattigdom og svik har faren en rikdom å gi videre til sønnen; han kan fortelle historier.Frank lytter begjærlig når faren forteller om den uovervinnelige Cuchulain som reddet Irland og om engelen på det sjuende trinn, som kommer til foreldrene med alle Franks småsøsken.Med en uforlignelig innlevelsesevne, med humor og varme forteller Frank McCourt om familiens strabasiøse liv. "Engelen på det sjuende trinn" har vunnet både National Book Critics Circle Award i USA og den prestisjetunge Pulitzerprisen for 1996. Boken ble også kåret til årets bok av Time Magazine.

''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 på dess pubar. Han presenterar för oss skollärarna som terroriserade (och ibland inspirerade) sina elever, affärsinnehavarna som gav fattiga kredit, prästerna som lyssnade på bikten från unga pojkar som var helt upptagna av tankar på sex, synd och skam... Den som läser dessa fantastiska memoarer kan bara hoppas att mr McCourt kommer att skriva ner minnena av sina fortsatta äventyr.¿Så skriver The New York Times om denna litterära bestseller som nu gör sitt segertåg genom världen.Frank McCourt gör sensationell debut med en självbiografisk roman om sin irländska barndom. Han föddes 1930 av irländska föräldrar i New York och tillbringade där sina första fyra levnadsår, innan familjen av släkten förpassades tillbaka till Irland och Limerick. Han växer upp i ofattbar fattigdom och misär, men om detta berättar han med en sådan värme och humor att man som läsare blir helt förtrollad och man beundrar denne lille överlevares förmåga att njuta av de lyckliga stunderna i livet.

This two-man show is a bubbling stew of humor with a dash of poignancy to sharpen the flavor. A grand crowd pleaser whenever performed, the Blaguards is a story of immigration, triumph over hardship and the love of a family.

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 Ashes, 'Tis, and Malachy's A Monk Swimmin', this brilliantly structured comedy is a proven crowd-pleaser offering solid entertainment. Similar to Frank McCourt's best-selling novels, the story follows the trials of the young McCourts in poverty-stricken Limerick, Ireland, to their journey to the U.S. and Brooklyn, New York, where the young men learn to incorporate the day-to-day lessons of their hard Irish past. A story of immigration, triumph over hardship, and the love between family, A Couple of Blaguards is a theatrical event that will find a place in the heart of every audience member. "MEMORABLE! The brothers McCourt bring their two best selling books to the stage...the show has a roguish appeal" - Peter Marks, The New York Times "An unholy amount of charm!" - The Washington Post "Mixes the sweetness and kick of an Irish coffee." - Newsday

The Little Book of Teachers’ Wisdom is a fun and inspirational book packed with words of wisdom on the art of teaching. With more than 3,000 entries, it includes the thoughts on the art of teaching from hundreds of teachers, professors, authors, and politicians, including Aristotle, the Buddha, Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, Helen Keller, Freud, Albert Einstein, Gandhi, Winston Churchill, and John Lennon. It’s the perfect gift for a teaching school graduate, a favorite teacher, or anyone with a passion for learning and educating.

"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 admonish, revere and revile, connect and compete, love and war with each other. With hearts and minds wide open, and, in some cases, with laugh-out-loud humor, the writers tackle a topic that is as old as the Bible and yet has been, heretofore, overlooked. Contributors range in age from twenty-four to eighty-four, and their stories from comic to tragic. Brothers examines and explores the experiences of love and loyalty and loss, of altruism and anger, of competition and compassion—the confluence of things that conspire to form the unique nature of what it is to be and to have a brother. “Brother.” One of our eternal and quintessential terms of endearment. Tobias Wolff writes, “The good luck of having a brother is partly the luck of having stories to tell.” David Kaczynski, brother of “The Unabomber”: “I’ll start with the premise that a brother shows you who you are—and also who you are not. He’s an image of the self, at one remove . . . You are a ‘we’ with your brother before you are a ‘we’ with any other.” Mikal Gilmore refers to brotherhood as a “fidelity born of blood.” We’ve heard that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. But where do the apples fall in relation to each other? And are we, in fact, our brothers’ keepers, after all? These stories address those questions and more, and are, like the relationships, full of intimacy and pain, joy and rage, burdens and blessings, humor and humanity.

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 zwölftausend Schülern gelernt hat - als Lehrer, als Geschichtenerzähler, als Schriftsteller. Ein Buch, wie man es liebt, aber selten findet: voll Witz und Charme, voll Verzweiflung, Ironie und Lebensweisheit.

When we look back with fondness at our school years, one teacher always stands out. This tremendous compendium of wisdom captures that special relationship. With more than 3,000 entries, it includes thoughts on the art of teaching and the acquisition of knowledge from hundreds of professors, scholars, politicians, celebrities, and more. Some of the famous names represented include Socrates, Aristotle, the Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad, Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, Helen Keller, Freud, Albert Einstein, Gandhi, Winston Churchill, and John Lennon. The words will educate, amuse, and perhaps even inspire some readers to focus on this honorable profession as a lifelong pursuit.

A third memoir from the author of the huge international bestsellers Angelaâ??s Ashes and â??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 New York Cityâ?¦

The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Angela's Ashes describes his coming of age as a teacher, storyteller, and writer, a personal journey during which he spent fifteen years finding his voice in the classroom and came to terms with the undervalued importance of teaching. Reprint. 1,000,000 first printing.

Frank McCourt continues his life story in the brilliant, bestselling sequel to the million-selling ââ?¬Ë?Angelaââ?¬â?¢s Ashesââ?¬â?¢.

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.

"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 Hoffnungen der Millionen von begeisterten Lesern und schrieb seine Geschichte fort. "Ein rundherum tolles Land" beginnt dort, wo der erste Teil endet: als Frank McCourt mit 19 Jahren an Bord eines irischen Schiffes nach Amerika kommt und nichts hat als die Hoffnung auf eine bessere Zukunft. Arm, mit schlechten Zähnen und entzündeten Augen, ohne jede nennenswerte Ausbildung, erreicht er das Land seiner Träume - und muss feststellen, dass er mit seinem Aussehen und seinem irischen Akzent ein Nichts ist. Wie er sich trotz aller Widrigkeiten einen Platz im Leben erkämpft, einen Platz "auf dem Bindestrich von Irisch-Amerika", berichtet der große Erzähler McCourt in seiner unnachahmlichen Mischung aus Traurigkeit und Witz. Seine unglaublichen Geschichten über Priester und Jungfrauen, über irische Kneipen, bayrische Bierkeller und die merkwürdigen Sitten der Amerikaner im Allgemeinen verbinden sich zu einer augenzwinkernden Hommage an das Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten, in der "toll" nicht nur "großartig" bedeutet. "Nach wenigen Seiten der Lektüre wiederholt sich das Wunder von 'Die Asche meiner Mutter': Das Buch packt, ergreift, amüsiert und läßt einen nicht mehr los." Süddeutsche Zeitung "Was den Lebensroman über simple Anekdotik hinaushebt, ist die anheimelnde, ungemein wirkungsvolle Mischung aus Sentimentalität, Nostalgie, menschlicher Wärme, Komik, Weisheit und Liebe. Die Weisheit des gereiften Erzählers blitzt hinter der köstlichen Naivität des jugendlichen Frankie ständig auf. ... ein warmes, rührendes Buch." Neue Zürcher Zeitung "Eine bestechende Mischung aus Witz und Trauer, die man nicht vor der letzten Seite aus der Hand legt." Münchner Merkur

A #1 New York Times bestseller and the eagerly anticipated sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angela's Ashes, this masterpiece from Frank McCourt tells of his American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. 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 salvation, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Rarely has a book so swiftly found its place on the literary landscape. And now we have 'Tis, the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. Frank lands in New York at age nineteen, in the company of a priest he meets on the boat. He gets a job at the Biltmore Hotel, where he immediately encounters the vivid hierarchies of this "classless country," and then is drafted into the army and is sent to Germany to train dogs and type reports. It is Frank's incomparable voice--his uncanny humor and his astonishing ear for dialogue--that renders these experiences spellbinding. When Frank returns to America in 1953, he works on the docks, always resisting what everyone tells him, that men and women who have dreamed and toiled for years to get to America should "stick to their own kind" once they arrive. Somehow, Frank knows that he should be getting an education, and though he left school at fourteen, he talks his way into New York University. There, he falls in love with the quintessential Yankee, long-legged and blonde, and tries to live his dream. But it is not until he starts to teach--and to write--that Frank finds his place in the world. The same vulnerable but invincible spirit that captured the hearts of readers in Angela's Ashes comes of age. As Malcolm Jones said in his Newsweek review of Angela's Ashes, "It is only the best storyteller who can so beguile his readers that he leaves them wanting more when he is done...and McCourt proves himself one of the very best." Frank McCourt's 'Tis is one of the most eagerly awaited books of our time, and it is a masterpiece.

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 salvation, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Rarely has a book so swiftly found its place on the literary landscape. And now we have 'Tis, the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. The same vulnerable but invincible spirit that captured the hearts of readers in Angela's Ashes comes of age. As Malcolm Jones said in his Newsweek review of Angela's Ashes, "It is only the best storyteller who can so beguile his readers that he leaves them wanting more when he is done...and McCourt proves himself one of the very best." Frank McCourt's 'Tis is one of the most eagerly awaited books of our time, and it is a masterpiece.