Frank McCourt

«Cuando recuerdo mi infancia, me pregunto cómo pude sobrevivir siquiera. Fue, naturalmente, una infancia desgraciada, se entiende; las infancias felices no merecen que les prestemos atención. La i

El libro comienza con su viaje a Estados Unidos en 1949. Apenas tiene diecinueve años y su única compañía es un sacerdote al que acaba de conocer en el barco. Durante su primer trabajo en un hotel entra muy pronto en contacto con las estrictas jerarquias de una sociedad supuestamente sin clases sociales. Mas tarde, tras superar obstaculos de todo tipo, tiene por fin la oportunidad de entrar en la Universidad de Nueva York, donde completara sus estudios y se preparara para su futuro trabajo como profesor. Frank McCourt nos obsequia con nuevos capitulos de su vida y con nuevas lecciones de humanidad y de supervivencia, en el mismo tono entrañable y humoristico que ha cautivado a los lectores de Las cenizas de Angela.

«Ja vénen. I no estic a punt. Sóc un professor nou i estic aprenent la feina.» Així comença Frank McCourt aquesta espe-rada nova obra, inspirada en els trenta anys durant els quals va exercir la docè

Crónica sobre los desafíos a los que debió enfrentarse como profesor en colegios de Nueva York, durante treinta años.Después del impacto mundial causado por Las cenizas de Ángela (más de veinte millones de ejemplares vendidos en todo el mundo y un Premio Pulitzer), y de la confirmacion de un exito con Lo es, Frank McCourt nos ofrece la ultima etapa de sus apasionantes memorias. En El profesor nos habla de los treinta años en los que fue docente en un instituto de secundaria en Nueva York.El relato empieza cuando McCourt tiene 27 años e, instalado en Nueva York, inicia una actividad academica para la cual sus estudios universitarios no han acabado de formarle. En efecto, las realidades sociales en un entorno tan duro como el neoyorquino resultan dificiles de digerir por parte de este inmigrante irlandes. Haciendo mas caso a su intuicion y a lo que le dicta su conciencia que a las directrices academicas, consigue despertar el interes de sus alumnos. Para ello, decide bajarse del pedestal en el que viven instalados la mayoria de profesores y se dedica a escuchar a sus alumnos y a aprender de ellos, poniendose a su altura para conocer sus inquietudes, sus gustos y su forma de ver el mundo.

«Cuando recuerdo mi infancia, me pregunto cómo pude sobrevivir siquiera. Fue, naturalmente, una infancia desgraciada, se entiende; las infancias felices no merecen que les prestemos atención. La infa

Contemporary / American English (Available March 2008) When Frank McCourt becomes a teacher in New York, he finds himself standing in front of bored, confused, angry students. Will he fail as a teacher? Or can he use his miserable Irish childhood to help his students? This is the true story of one mans surprising, upsetting, but sometimes very funny experiences in the classroom

Una edición especial limitada y numerada para celebrar el 20º aniversario de uno de los mayores éxitos de las últimas décadas, conmás de 17 millones de ejemplares vendidos.«Cuando recuerdo mi infa

After years of teaching creative writing, Frank McCourt published his first book, thus obliging his many friends who had been urging him to write about his childhood--a subject they knew from the many uproarious and affecting stories he told about it. ANGELA'S ASHES traces the tortuous path of his life from his days in abysmal poverty in Limerick, Ireland, to his arrival in New York as a teenager, eager to start a new life.

Siamo negli anni fra le due guerre e le travagliate vicende coinvolgono una famiglia cosi misera che puo guardare dal basso la poverta, fra un padre perennemente ebbro e vociferante contro il mondo, gli inglesi e i protestanti, e una madre che sbrigativamente trascina la sua tribu verso la sopravvivenza. Tutto ci arriva attraverso gli occhi e la voce del protagonista mentre vive le sue avventure. Questo ragazzino indistruttibile, sfrontato, refrattario a ogni sentimentalismo, implacabile osservatore crea con le sue parole un prodigio di comicita e vitalita contagiose, dove tutte le atrocita diventano episodi e apparizioni di un viaggio battuto dal vento verso la terra promessa.

Siamo negli anni fra le due guerre e le travagliate vicende coinvolgono una famiglia cosi misera che puo guardare dal basso la poverta, fra un padre perennemente ebbro e vociferante contro il mondo, gli inglesi e i protestanti e una madre che sbrigativamente trascina la sua tribu verso la sopravvivenza. Tutto ci arriva attraverso gli occhi e la voce del protagonista mentre vive le sue avventure. Questo ragazzino indistruttibile, sfrontato, refrattario a ogni sentimentalismo, implacabile osservatore crea con le sue parole un prodigio di comicita e vitalita contagiose, dove tutte le atrocita diventano episodi e apparizioni di un viaggio battuto dal vento verso la terra promessa.

A #1 New York Times bestseller and the eagerly anticipated sequel to the Pulitzer Prizewinning Angelas Ashes, this masterpiece from Frank McCourt tells of his American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur.Frank McCourts glorious childhood memoir, Angelas Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself is the source of salvation, 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.

Il romanzo narra le vicende del giovane McCourt giunto in America con l''intenzione di riscattare l''infelice infanzia irlandese, raccontata nelle "Ceneri di Angela". La scena e quella di New York nel secondo dopoguerra. Una New York proletaria, dove fra case di mattoni rossi, pub di emigrati irlandesi e banchine ingombre di merci, con la quinta di Manhattan lontana ed irraggiungibile, Frankie si trova a percorrere, passo dopo passo, un faticossisimo apprendistato. Inserviente in un grande e lussuoso albergo, militare durante la guerra di Corea, scaricatore di porto, e infine insegnante, in aule e fra scolaresche che ricordano piuttosto da vicino le rumorose classi di Limerick.

Frank McCourt continues his life story in the brilliant, bestselling sequel to the million-selling Angela's Ashes. Angela's Ashes was a publishing phenomenon. Frank McCourt's critically acclaimed, lyrical memoir of his Limerick childhood won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics' Circle Award, the Royal Society of Literature Award and the Los Angeles Times Award amongst others, and rapidly became a word-of-mouth bestseller topping all charts worldwide for over two years. It left readers and critics alike eager to hear more about Frank McCourt's incredible, poignant life. '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. 'It is only the best storyteller who can so beguile his readers that he leaves them wanting more when he's done!McCourt proves himself one of the very best' (Newsweek). 'Tis blesses readers with another chapter of McCourt's story, but as it closes, they will want still more.

La commovedora història de Les cendres d’Angela acaba amb la pregunta que li formulen a Frank en arribar als Estats Units: “Oi que aquest és un gran país?”. El nostre autor, que ara té dinou anys i a

Frank McCourt, conegut per l’extraordinària novel·la Les cendres d’Angela, ens captiva de nou amb una història emocionant sobre una nena de sis anys preocupada per protegir el Nen Jesús del fred de l

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 impossible to teach, with terrible problems at home and school. McCourt is faced with students who nobody wants to teach. Some of his students think that he is a crazy, drunk, violent Irishman. A moving memoir written with wit and charm.