{"product_id":"angelas-ashes-frank-mccourt","title":"Angela's Ashes (Frank Mccourt)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eImbued with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion, \u003ci\u003eAngela's Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e is a glorious Pulitzer Prize-winner that bears all the marks of a classic.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSo begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's father Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePerhaps it is a story that accounts for Frank's survival. Wearing shoes repaired with tires, begging a pig's head for Christmas dinner, and searching the pubs for his father, Frank endures poverty, near-starvation, and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors-yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance and remarkable forgiveness.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFrank McCourt (1930-2009) 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 book, \u003ci\u003eAngela's Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Award. He is also the author of the memoirs \u003ci\u003e'Tis \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTeacher Man.\u003c\/i\u003e In 2006, he won the prestigious 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.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 464 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65812074627421,"sku":"K024782823","price":8.3,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/2478282300001A.jpg?v=1788529202","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/angelas-ashes-frank-mccourt","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}