Angela's Ashes: A Memoir of a Childhood Audio, Cassette - Abridged, Audiobook by Frank McCourt (Author, Reader)

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir of a Childhood

MCCOURT, FRANK

Biographies & Memoirs

HARPER/COLLINS

Angela's Ashes : A Memoir of a Childhood

Special edition of the bestselling classic, to tie-in with the release of Alan Parker's major new film of Angela's Ashes "When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how I survived 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. People everywhere brag or whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying shcoolmasters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years. Above all we were wet..." So begins Frank McCourt's stunning memoir of his childhood in Ireland and America, a recollection of unvarnished truth and no self pity, of grinding poverty and indomitable spirit that will live in the memory long after the tape has ended. Now a major film directed by Alan Parker and starring Robert Carlyle and Emily Watson.

Angela's Ashes : A Memoir

Community & Culture

Angela's Ashes

Easton Press

'Tis

Used Hardcover Edition published by Scribner, N.Y., 1999, 367 pages in Very Good Condition. Dust Jacket shows very slight shelf wear. Text is clean and unmarked with no rips, tears, creases, loose or bent pages. Price has not been clipped on the inside Dust Jacket flap.A nice copy. Frank McCourt's American journey continues from impoverished immigrant to brilliant, beloved teacher and raconteur. An entertaining, spellbinding book told by a master storyteller filled with aching sadness and uncanny humor that so beguiles the reader that they want more after they read the last page. McCourt's books capture the immigrant spirit of bygone America, vulerable yet invincible at the same time. Prompt shipping with a Free Delivery Confirmation.

'TIS

Arts & Literature

Scribner & Company

'Tis is the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant with rotten teeth, infected eyes and no formal education to brilliant raconteur and schoolteacher. Saved first by a straying priest, then by the Democratic party, then by the United States Army, then by New York University -- which admitted him on a trial basis though he had no high school diploma -- Frank had the same vulnerable but invincible spirit at nineteen that he had at eight and still has today. And 'Tis is a tale of survival as vivid, harrowing, and often hilarious as Angela's Ashes. Yet again, it is through the power of storytelling that Frank finds a life for himself.

Tis: A memoir

Flamingo

2 books by Frank McCourt comprises: Angela's Ashes - Memoir of a Childhood and Special'Tis a Memoir - The Sequel to Angela's Ashes. Comes complete in a gift box.

Angela's Ashes/'Tis: A Memoir of a Childhood: AND 'Tis

London: Flamingo

A memoir of growing up in New York in the 1930s and in Ireland in the 1940s. McCourt tells of extreme hardship and suffering, in Brooklyn tenements and Limerick slums - too many children, too little money, his mother barely coping as his father's drinking bouts brought the family close to disaster.

trade edition paperback, fine In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Teacher Man: A Memoir

A third memoir from the author of the huge international bestsellers ‘Angela’s Ashes’ and ‘‘Tis’. In ‘Teacher Man’, Frank McCourt details his illustrious, amusing, and sometimes rather bumpy years as an English teacher in the public high schools of New York City.Frank McCourt arrived in New York as a young, impoverished and idealistic Irish boy – but who crucially had an American passport, having been born in Brooklyn. He didn't know what he wanted except to stop being hungry and to better himself. On the subway he watched students carrying books. He saw how they read and underlined and wrote things in the margin and he liked the look of this very much. He joined the New York Public Library and every night when he came back from his hotel work he would sit up reading the great novels.Building his confidence and his determination, he talked his way into NYU and gained a literature degree and so began a teaching career that was to last thirty years, working in New York’s public high schools. Frank estimates that he probably taught 12,000 children during this time and it is on this relationship between teacher and student that he reflects in ‘Teacher Man’, the third in his series of memoirs.The New York high school is a restless, noisy and unpredictable place and Frank believes that it was his attempts to control and cajole these thousands of children into learning and achieving something for themselves that turned him into a writer. At least once a day someone would put up their hand and shout ‘Mr. McCourt, Mr. McCourt, tell us about Ireland, tell us about how poor you were…’ Through sharing his own life with these kids he learnt the power of narrative storytelling, and out of the invaluable experience of holding 12,000 people’s attention came ‘Angela’s Ashes’.

TEACHER MAN

Simon&Schuster

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Angela's Ashes: A Memoir of a Childhood

Angela's Ashes : A Memoir

Angela's Ashes

'TIS

Tis: A memoir

Angela's Ashes/'Tis: A Memoir of a Childhood: AND 'Tis

Angela's Ashes : A Memoir of a Childhood

Angela's Ashes : A Memoir of a Childhood

'Tis

TEACHER MAN