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Un conmovedor cuento de Navidad, lleno de ternura y magia, basado en un episodio real protagonizado por Ángela, la madre de Frank McCourt, cuando era una niña. Es Navidad en la gélida ciudad irlandesa de Limerick y la pequeña Angela, de seis años, piensa que el Niño Jesus debe estar pasando mucho frio en la iglesia. Asi ,que se lo lleva cariñosamente en brazos hasta el calor de su casa. Ahi, su hermano la descubre y se lo cuenta todo a su madre. Afortunadamente para Angela, la madre no se lo cree y el Niño Jesus puede seguir arropado en su cama, al abrigo del terrible frio que asola la ciudad. Pero en la iglesia, el parroco no tarda en descubrir la misteriosa desaparicion y avisa a la policia. ;Quien habra sido capaz de cometer semejante robo? El tono tierno y entrañable que caracteriza todos los libros de Frank McCourt, convierte este relato en una lectura apta para todas las edades.

Frank McCourt, the author of ANGELA'S ASHES and 'TIS, wraps up his trilogy of memoirs with this account of the 30 years he spent teaching in New York public high schools, from his rocky beginning as a young man teaching English in a vocational school to his eventual destination--the rarefied halls of the elite Stuyvesant School. Throughout, McCourt was continually devising clever schemes to catch students' interest (which often succeeded) and fighting against the red tape and stultifying restrictions thrust upon him by school bureaucrats (which often resulted in his being fired).

This is the 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 long 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 one 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 30 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". Frank McCourt was a legend in such schools as Stuyvesant High School - long before he became the figure he is now he would receive letters from former students telling him how much his teaching influenced and inspired them - and now in "Teacher Man" he shares his reminiscences of those 30 years and reveals how they led to his own success with "Angela''s Ashes" and "''Tis".

LO ES es la continuación del nº 1 en las listas de best-seller de todo el mundo - ganador del Premio PULITZER- durante 60 semanas como libro más vendido: LAS CENIZAS DE ÁNGELA. Comienza en el final de LAS CENIZAS DE ANGELA, en un barco, ante el cielo de Nueva York. El oficial de radio le pregunta a Frank, de diecinueve años: ¿Verdad que este es un gran pais? Y Frank le contesta: Lo es . LO ES narra los recuerdos de Frank McCourt en los Estados Unidos como emigrante, con su dentadura rota, los ojos enfermos, pero que gracias a su inquebrantable espiritu de supervivencia, llega a ser profesor de literatura. Frank McCourt tuvo el mismo espiritu vulnerable e invencible a los diecinueve años que a los ocho y que es el mismo que todavia conserva hoy. LO ES, una narracion de supervivencia tan dramatica como hilarante. Su autor nos obsequia con nuevos capitulos de su vida y cuando terminamos su lectura nos quedamos con ganas de saber mas, pues queremos seguir con el.

El pack con un cuidado diseño y una magnífica encuadernación se presenta con una foto y el autógrafo del autor. Reúne los dos exitosos títulos: LAS CENIZAS DE ANGELA y LO ES encuadernados en cartoné.

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.

From the author of the million-selling Angela's Ashes -- the most keenly anticipated sequel of the decade 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.

En este magnífico libro se narran los duros comienzos de una familia emigrante irlandesa vista a través de un niño. Por ello, el lector se encontrará con grandes dosis de humor y compasión transmitidos a traves de su autor, Frank McCourt. La madre de Frank, Angela, no tiene dinero para dar de comer a sus hijos porque el padre de Frank, Malachy, rara vez trabaja, y cuando trabaja se bebe el sueldo. Frank McCourt fue profesor de creacion literaria durante muchos años.

Edición de bolsillo. LO ES es la continuación del nº 1 en las listas de best-seller de todo el mundo - ganador del Premio PULITZER- durante 60 semanas como libro más vendido: LAS CENIZAS DE ÁNGELA. Comienza en el final de LAS CENIZAS DE ANGELA, en un barco, ante el cielo de Nueva York. El oficial de radio le pregunta a Frank, de diecinueve años: ¿Verdad que este es un gran pais? Y Frank le contesta: Lo es . LO ES narra los recuerdos de Frank McCourt en los Estados Unidos como emigrante, con su dentadura rota, los ojos enfermos, pero que gracias a su inquebrantable espiritu de supervivencia, llega a ser profesor de literatura. Frank McCourt tuvo el mismo espiritu vulnerable e invencible a los diecinueve años que a los ocho y que es el mismo que todavia conserva hoy. LO ES, una narracion de supervivencia tan dramatica como hilarante. Su autor nos obsequia con nuevos capitulos de su vida y cuando terminamos su lectura nos quedamos con ganas de saber mas, pues queremos seguir con el.