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The internet as we know it is broken. Here's how we can seize back control of our lives from the corporate algorithms that have poisoned our digital information system and create a third-generation Internet that uplifts humanity-before it's too late"--

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SO BEGINS THE LUMINOUS MEMOIR OF FRANK MCCOURT, BORN IN DEPRESSION-ERA BROOKLYN TO RECENT IRISH IMMIGRANTS AND RAISED IN THE SLUMS OF LIMERICK, IRELAND. FRANK'S MOTHER, ANGELA, HAS NO MONEY TO FEED THE CHILDREN SINCE FRANK'S FATHER, MALACHY, RARELY WORKS, AND WHEN HE DOES HE DRINKS HIS WAGES. YET MALACHY - EXASPERATING, IRRESPONSIBLE AND BEGUILING - DOES NURTURE IN FRANK AN APPETITE FOR THE ONE THING HE CAN PROVIDE: A STORY. FRANK LIVES FOR HI...

Special edition of the bestselling classic, to tie-in with the release of Alan Parker's major new film of Angela's Ashes

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The inspiration for the Emmy-nominated film and its companion Angela's Christmas Wish, now streaming on Netflix! Pulitzer Prize recipient Frank McCourt shares the story of his mother's childhood Christmas in this tender and heartwarming picture book, previously published as Angela and the Baby Jesus.Angela is six-years-old and worries for the baby Jesus on the altar of St. Joseph's church in Limerick. December nights are damp and cold, and the...

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Negli anni Cinquanta, i cieli delle città americane (e anche gli schermi dei relativi cinema) pullulavano di oggetti volanti non identificati. L'oggetto che il primo giorno di scuola attraversa il cielo della classe, sotto gli occhi attoniti del professor Frank McCourt, è invece identificabilissimo: un panino che l'immancabile mamma italiana ha farcito, a beneficio del suo pupo, con peperoni, cipolla, formaggio fuso e mortadella. Se la prima i...

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Stunning reissue of the phenomenal worldwide bestseller: Frank McCourt's sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s.It is a story of extreme hardship and suffering, in Brooklyn tenements and Limerick slums - too many children, too little money, his mother Angela barely coping as his father Malachy's drinking bouts constantly brings the family to the brink of disaster. It is a story of courage ...

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Die Asche meiner Mutter' ist so gut - sie verdient eine Fortsetzung." So schrieb die New York Times über Frank McCourts Bestseller. Mit dem vorliegenden Buch erfüllte der Autor nicht nur den Wunsch seines Rezensenten, sondern auch die Hoffnungen der Millionen von begeisterten Lesern und schrieb seine Geschichte fort. "Ein rundherum tolles Land" beginnt dort, wo der erste Teil endet: als Frank McCourt mit 19 Jahren an Bord eines irischen Schiff...

Frank McCourts Erinnerungen an seine Jahre als LehrerDreißig Jahre lang hat Frank McCourt, der Amerikaner mit der unglücklichen irischen katholischen Kindheit, in New Yorker Schulen unterrichtet. Jetzt erzählt er, was er von seinen insgesamt zwölftausend Schülern gelernt hat - als Lehrer, als Geschichtenerzähler, als Schriftsteller. Ein Buch, wie man es liebt, aber selten findet: voll Witz und Charme, voll Verzweiflung, Ironie und Lebensweisheit.

Frank McCourt was born in 1931 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 various New York City high schools, including Stuyvesant, and in city colleges. He lives with his wife, Ellen, in New York City and Connecticut.

Available at last in paperback is Frank McCourt's critically acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller about how his 30-year teaching career in the public schools of New York City shaped his second act as a writer.

When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive 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". So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ir...