Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, "Angela's Ashes," has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere. 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 and 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 that renders these experiences spellbinding.
When Frank returns to America in 1953, he works on the docks, always resisting what everyone tells him. He 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 and tries to live his dream. But it is not until he starts to teach that Frank finds his place in the world.
"/>
Ihr Genre bieten wir an!
Autor: McCourt, Frank
Vorleser: McCourt, Frank
Genre: Audio/Belletristik/Lyrik/Dramatik/Essays
ISBN: 0743551745
EAN/ISBN-13: 9780743551748
Sprache: eng
Veröffentlichung: November 2005
Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, "Angela's Ashes," has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere. 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 and 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 that renders these experiences spellbinding.
When Frank returns to America in 1953, he works on the docks, always resisting what everyone tells him. He 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 and tries to live his dream. But it is not until he starts to teach that Frank finds his place in the world.
weitere passende Bücher

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 …

As a young man, Frank McCourt leaves Irelandand moves to New York. He works and studies hard, and soon becomes a teacher in a school where the students have no interest in learning. Many of them are …
Dieter Nuhr, geboren 1960 am Niederrhein, Studium der Geschichte und Kunst. Nuhr ist begeisterter und begnadeter Fotograf. Seit über 10 Jahren erfolgreich auf der Bühne und im TV unterwegs. …
Dieter Nuhr zeichnet in "Nuhr nach vorn" ein atemberaubendes Bild unserer Zeit, in der es keinen Stillstand gibt. Mit erstaunlicher Weitsicht und glänzender Beobachtungsgabe bohrt er den …
Der HerausgeberUlrich Klan, geb. 1953, ist Komponist, Musiker und Autor. Neben der Organisation von internationalen Konzerten und Weltmusik-Projekten wie »Europe meets Australia« und »Picture of a …
Doppel-Audio-CD mit mehrsprachigem BookletArmin T. Wegner: Eine lange zum Schweigen verurteilte Stimme wird hörbar - hochaktuell und international. Originalaufnahmen des Autors, Lesungen aus …
Reinhard Bollmus, geboren 1933, war Assistenz-Professor und …
Alfred Rosenberg, der Verfasser des "Mythus des 20. Jahrhunderts" galt gleichsam als "Chefideologe" des Dritten Reiches. Reinhard Bollmus legt aufgrund zahlreicher Akten und Briefe der Dienststelle …
"Das Werk hat seine Bedeutung für die Erkenntnisse des Innenlebens des nationalsozialistischen …
Johanna Paungger wuchs mit dem Wissen um Mond- und Naturrhythmen auf. Ihr Großvater ließ sie an seinem immensen Wissen um eine gesunde Lebensführung und Vitalität bis ins hohe …
Gesund sein und gesund werden - aus eigener Kraft: Die Autoren wollen ein Wissen nahebringen, das Sie durch das ganze Leben begleiten kann, das Ihnen den Weg ebnet zur unmittelbaren, persönlichen …
Rilke wurde 1875 als Sohn eines Prager Beamten geboren. Nach einer erzwungenen Militärerziehung begann er 1896 in Prag ein Studium der Kunst- und Literaturgeschichte, wechselte dann an die …
Rilkes letzte und reifste Schöpfungen sind hier vereinigt mit der Deutung Katharina Kippenbergs, …

Ellis Peters is one of the pseudonyms of Edith Pargeter who wrote several books under her own name and also Peter Benedict, Jolyon Carr and John Redfern. She was the recipient of the Crime Writers …
Farbe grün
Copyright © 2010 - All Rights Reserved - buecher-lounge.de | Impressum | Sitemap
Template by OS Templates