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Beschreibung
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 Ashes" recounts McCourt's existence with remarkable exuberance and remarkable forgiveness.
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 Ashes" recounts McCourt's existence with remarkable exuberance and remarkable forgiveness.
Über den Autor
Frank McCourt (1930–2009) was an Irish American writer and teacher who was born 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 New York City high schools. His first memoir, Angela’s Ashes, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He continued the story of his life, immigration, and teaching career in the bestselling memoirs ’Tis and Teacher Man. In 2006, he received the Ellis Island Family Heritage Award for Exemplary Service in the Field of the Arts and the United Federation of Teachers John Dewey Award for Excellence in Education.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
Genre: Importe
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Sachliteratur
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780684859330
ISBN-10: 0684859335
Sprache: Spanisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Mccourt, Frank
Hersteller: Simon Aguilar
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Frank Mccourt
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.1999
Gewicht: 0,562 kg
Artikel-ID: 106812018

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