Frank Mccourt

Broschiertes Buch

Las Cenizas de Angela (Angela's Ashes)

Una Memoria

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.

Autor

Frank 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, Angela’s Ashes, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon Aguilar
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 1999
• Spanisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780684859330
• ISBN-10: 0684859335
• Artikelnr.: 22428206