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Teacher Man

A Memoir

By: Frank McCourt

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Teacher Man

A Memoir

By: Frank McCourt

The third installment of McCourt's memoirs (after Angela's Ashes and 'Tis) covers his thirty-year teaching career in New York City's public high schools.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743289668

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Tis

A Memoir

By: Frank McCourt

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Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's 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. 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, in the company of a priest he meets on the boat. He 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 -- his uncanny humor and his astonishing ear for dialogue -- that renders these experiences spellbinding. When Frank returns to America in 1953, he works on the docks, always resisting what everyone tells him, that men and women who have dreamed and toiled for years to get to America should "stick to their own kind" once they arrive. Somehow, Frank 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, long-legged and blonde, and tries to live his dream. But it is not until he starts to teach -- and to write -- that Frank finds his place in the world. The same vulnerable but invincible spirit that captured the hearts of readers in Angela's Ashes comes of age. As Malcolm Jones said in his Newsweek review of Angela's Ashes, "It is only the best storyteller who can so beguile his readers that he leaves them wanting more when he is done...and McCourt proves himself one of the very best." Frank McCourt's 'Tis is one of the most eagerly awaited books of our time, and it is a masterpiece.

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Simon and Schuster

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0684845245

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9780684845241

Angela's Ashes

A Memoir

By: Frank McCourt

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Angela's Ashes

A Memoir

By: Frank McCourt

A memoir about childhood, relilience, and the trumphant power of storytelling."--From back cover.

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Simon and Schuster

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068484267X

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Teacher Man

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By: Frank Mccourt

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Teacher Man

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By: Frank Mccourt

In this appealing memoir, McCourt describes his own coming of age as a teacher, a storyteller, and, ultimately, a writer.

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1405851759

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Angela's Ashes

By: Frank McCourt

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Angela's Ashes

By: Frank McCourt

A Memoir, about Irish Americans.

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Simon and Schuster

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0684874350

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'Tis

A Memoir

By: Frank McCourt

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'Tis

A Memoir

By: Frank McCourt

Continues the sometimes harrowing tale of the author's youth as he immigrates from Ireland to the United States, joins the Army, goes to college, and begins building a life.

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Pocket

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0743200985

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Angela's Ashes

A Memoir of a Childhood

By: Frank McCourt

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Angela's Ashes

A Memoir of a Childhood

By: Frank McCourt

Frank McCourt returned to America when he was nineteen. For many years, he was an English teacher at Stuyvesant High School in New York City. The sequel to "Angela's Ashes, 'Tis, " will be published in the fall of 1999. McCourt lives in Connecticut.

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HarperPerennial

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000649840X

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A Monk Swimming

A Memoir

By: Malachy McCourt

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A Monk Swimming

A Memoir

By: Malachy McCourt

In this “irresistible memoir that’s equal parts pathos and belly laughs,” the Irish American writer and actor shares stories from his first decade in the US (People). Malachy McCourt left behind a childhood of poverty and painful memories of his father and mother in Limerick, Ireland, when he followed his brother, Frank, to America in 1952. In A Monk Swimming, McCourt recounts the decade that followed. With not much to his name other than his sharp wit and knack for storytelling, McCourt was unsure what he would do after arriving in New York City. He worked as a longshoreman on the Brooklyn docks, became the first celebrity bartender in a Manhattan saloon, performed on stage with the Irish Players, and told tales to Jack Paar on The Tonight Show. Although McCourt gained success, money, women, and, eventually, children of his own, he still carried memories of the past with him. So, he fled again. He found himself in the Manhattan Detention Complex, otherwise known as the Tombs. He was arrested several times: poolside in Beverly Hills, in Zurich with gold-smugglers, and again in Calcutta with sex workers. McCourt’s journey also took him to Paris, Rome, and even Limerick again, until finally he was forced to grapple with his past. “[A] funny, oddly winning book.” —The New York Times “A rollicking good read that, as the Irish say, would make a dead man laugh.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer “A triumphant tale. . . . You will find yourself laughing through the tears.” —Newsday “Howlingly funny.” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Build[s] on the story of the McCourts’ early life so dazzlingly told in Angela’s Ashes by his brother Frank.” —Thomas Keneally, author of the international bestseller Schindler’s List

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Open Road Media

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1504093445

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Las Cenizas de Angela (Angela's Ashes)

Una Memoria

By: Frank McCourt

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Las Cenizas de Angela (Angela's Ashes)

Una Memoria

By: Frank McCourt

En cada pagina abunda el incomparable sentido del humor y la compasion de Frank McCourt. Con todas las cualidades de una obra clasica, "Las cenizas de Angela" esta ahora disponible en edicion rustica en español. Esta autobiografia ganadora del Premio Pulitzer y de gran exito de ventas internatcional trasciende las fronteras culturales y linguisticas con su narracion sobre la infancia, la pobreza y las relaciones familiares.

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Simon and Schuster

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0684859335

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9780684859330

Angela's Christmas

By: Frank McCourt

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Angela's Christmas

By: Frank McCourt

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 church is dark at night. How can the baby Jesus’ mother leave him in the manger without even a blanket to cover him? The baby Jesus surely needs Angela’s help, even if she is not allowed to go on the altar, especially by herself. Filled with the characters, incident, and detail that have made Frank McCourt internationally renowned and beloved, Angela’s Christmas is a timeless story of real life—in all of its joy, innocence, and incongruity. A story for all generations to enjoy and cherish.

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Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books

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1534461221

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Our Biggest Fight

Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age

By: Frank H. McCourt, Jr.

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Our Biggest Fight

Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age

By: Frank H. McCourt, Jr.

The internet as we know it is broken. Here’s how we can seize back control of our lives from the corporate algorithms and create a better internet—before it’s too late. It was once a utopian dream. But today’s internet, despite its conveniences and connectivity, is the primary cause of a pervasive unease that has taken hold in the U.S. and other democratic societies. It’s why youth suicide rates are rising, why politics has become toxic, and why our most important institutions are faltering. Information is the lifeblood of any society, and our current system for distributing it is corrupted at its heart. Everything comes down to our ability to communicate openly and trustfully with each other. But, thanks to the dominant digital platforms and the ways they distort human behavior, we have lost that ability—while, at the same time, we’ve been robbed of the data that is rightfully ours. The roots of this crisis, argue Frank McCourt and Michael Casey, lie in the prevailing order of the internet. In plain but forceful language, the authors—a civic entrepreneur and an acclaimed journalist—show how a centralized system controlled by a small group of for-profit entities has set this catastrophe in motion and eroded our personhood. And then they describe a groundbreaking solution to reclaim it: rather than superficial, patchwork regulations, we must reimagine the very architecture of the internet. The resulting “third-generation internet” would replace the status quo with a new model marked by digital property rights, autonomy, and ownership. Inspired by historical calls to action like Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, Our Biggest Fight argues that we must act now to embed the core values of a free, democratic society in the internet of tomorrow. Do it right and we will finally, properly, unlock its immense potential.

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Crown

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0593728513

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9780593728512

The Years of Bloom

James Joyce in Trieste, 1904-1920

By: John McCourt

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The Years of Bloom

James Joyce in Trieste, 1904-1920

By: John McCourt

Since the publication of Richard Ellmann's James Joyce in 1959, Joyce has received remarkably little biographical attention. Scholars have chipped away at various aspects of Ellmann's impressive edifice but have failed to construct anything that might stand alongside it. The Years of Bloom is arguably the most important work of Joyce biography since Ellmann. Based on extensive scrutiny of previously unused Italian sources and informed by the author's intimate knowledge of the culture and dialect of Trieste, The Years of Bloom documents a fertile period in Joyce's life. While living in Trieste, Joyce wrote most of the stories in Dubliners, turned Stephen Hero into A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and began Ulysses. Echoes and influences of Trieste are rife throughout Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. Though Trieste had become a sleepy backwater by the time Ellmann visited there in the 1950s, McCourt shows that the city was a teeming imperial port, intensely cosmopolitan and polyglot, during the approximately twelve years Joyce lived there in the waning years of the Habsburg Empire. It was there that Joyce experienced the various cultures of central Europe and the eastern Mediterranean. He met many Jews, who collectively provided much of the material for the character of Leopold Bloom. He encountered continental socialism, Italian Irredentism, Futurism, and various other political and artistic forces whose subtle influences McCourt traces with literary grace and scholarly rigour. The Years of Bloom, a rare landmark in the crowded terrain of Joyce studies, will instantly take its place as a standard work.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299169804

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9780299169800

Death Need Not Be Fatal

By: Malachy McCourt,Brian McDonald

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Death Need Not Be Fatal

By: Malachy McCourt,Brian McDonald

Before he runs out of time, Irish bon vivant Malachy McCourt shares his views on death - sometimes hilarious and often poignant - and on what will or won't happen after his last breath is drawn. During the course of his life, Malachy McCourt practically invented the single's bar; was a pioneer in talk radio, a soap opera star, a best-selling author; a gold smuggler, a political activist, and a candidate for governor of the state of New York. It seems that the only two things he hasn't done are stick his head into a lion's mouth and die. Since he is allergic to cats, he decided to write about the great hereafter and answer the question on most minds: What's so great about it anyhow? In Death Need Not Be Fatal, McCourt also trains a sober eye on the tragedies that have shaped his life: the deaths of his sister and twin brothers; the real story behind Angela's famous ashes; and a poignant account of the death of the man who left his mother, brothers, and him to nearly die in squalor. McCourt writes with deep emotion of the staggering losses of all three of his brothers, Frank, Mike, and Alphie. In his inimitable way, McCourt takes the grim reaper by the lapels and shakes the truth out of him. As he rides the final blocks on his Rascal scooter, he looks too at the prospect of his own demise with emotional clarity and insight. In this beautifully rendered memoir, McCourt shows us how to live life to its fullest, how to grow old without acting old, and how to die without regret.

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Center Street

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1478917059

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9781478917052

Singing My Him Song

By: Malachy McCourt

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Singing My Him Song

By: Malachy McCourt

Malachy McCourt, actor, gadfly and raconteur follows up his international best seller A Monk Swimming with this, the second instalment of his hilarious memoirs.

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Harper Collins

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0007522711

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9780007522712

Total Rethink

Why Entrepreneurs Should Act Like Revolutionaries

By: David McCourt

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Total Rethink

Why Entrepreneurs Should Act Like Revolutionaries

By: David McCourt

Rethink your way to a better life In business, and in life, everything is changing fast, apart from how we behave. Our ways of thinking and making decisions have changed little since we lived in agricultural and industrial societies, but the problems we now need to solve are entirely different. It requires a revolution in thinking and behavior to meet the challenges that now face us and avoid disaster we need to totally rethink the model. Part business biography, part business blueprint, Total Rethink explains how this can be done. Successful telecoms entrepreneur David McCourt lays out the reality of the dangerous situation we find ourselves in and suggests solutions which will empower everyone, including business people, politicians, diplomats, and teachers, to repair the damage we have already done, and prepare for the dramatic changes to come. • Change the way you think and behave to be a true entrepreneur • Understand why incremental change no longer works • Move at the speed of the times we’re living in to keep up • Find trusted, effective guidance you can put to practice today Written by a sought-after speaker, businessman, and entrepreneur, the advice inside this book will help you learn to think—and live—like a revolutionary.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119565367

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9781119565369

Lo es (Tis)

Una memoria (A Memoir)

By: Frank McCourt

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Lo es (Tis)

Una memoria (A Memoir)

By: Frank McCourt

Los millones de lectores que amaron la memoria increíble de la obra "las cenizas de Ángela", amarán también el presente libro. A través de sus páginas, el autor nos presenta esta historia sobre el viaje, físico y sicológico, de un improvisado inmigrante a brillante narrador y maestro de escuela. Salvado primero por un sacerdote perdido, pasando por el partido democrático, por la Armada de Estados Unidos, hasta la universidad de Nueva York; el autor del presente texto demuestra que, a los diecinueve años, sigue manteniendo el mismo espíritu invencible que tenía a los ocho... y que todavía mantiene. El presente libro es un cuento acerca de la sobrevivencia y tan vívido y entretenido como fue el texto anterior de este mismo autor.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743204239

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9780743204231

Sin in The Big Easy

By: Elizabeth McCourt

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Sin in The Big Easy

By: Elizabeth McCourt

Twenty-seven-year-old Abby Callahan moved to New Orleans to escape her past screw-ups in her small hometown. While out running, she sees a woman who had been raped and discarded, like trash. Abby finds herself selfishly pursuing the case to help her career, even though the victim is reluctant. The trial starts, the judge is suddenly arrested, but Abby is pulled back to New York when her father commits suicide. Managing her grief and complicated family dynamics, she tries both to rekindle and remedy her old romances. But she is pulled back to The Big Easy when her client goes missing. As more girls turn up dead—with Abby as their common connection—Abby decides to play detective with her journalist friend Jill Lejeune. Abby feels responsible to find her client alive, even as she comes to terms with her past mistakes, including how her lies allowed someone else to go to prison. Abby discovers she’s in over her head when Jill is beaten because she’s been mistaken for Abby. She wonders if everyone in her life is connected to this case. Abby seems to be the only one committed to finding the truth and decides to stop listening to everyone before she ends up at the morgue. A last-ditch call to the FBI and a rendezvous at the shipping warehouse lead Abby to one last dangerous situation where she finds out betrayal was in front of her the whole time.

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Post Hill Press

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1682615774

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9781682615775

A Monk Swimming

By: Malachy Mccourt

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A Monk Swimming

By: Malachy Mccourt

BACK IN PRINT! "A rollicking good read that, as the Irish say, would make a dead man laugh." ―Philadelphia Inquirer Malachy McCourt was already famous as an actor, saloon-keeper, and late-night television personality when Angela's Ashes was published. Brother Frank's book introduced the incorrigible, indomitable young Malachy to a worldwide audience that was charmed, and clamored for more. Frank's book was a hard act to follow, but Malachy's delightful memoir, which picked up where Angela's Ashes left off, won critical acclaim and commercial success. Born in Brooklyn, and raised in the lanes of Limerick, Malachy returned to New York in 1952, at age 20. After stints in the Air Force and as a longshoreman, he parlayed his gifts of gab and conviviality into an ownership position at Malachy's―the first singles' bar―located around the corner from the Barbizon Hotel for young women, whose glamorous residents frequently repaired to Malachy's for a tipple and flirt. Malachy's madcap, manic life ricocheted from higher highs to lower lows as he tried selling Bibles at the beach on Fire Island and smuggling gold in Zurich. He entertained a voracious public on the stage as a member of the Irish Players and was a semi-regular on the Tonight Show with Jack Paar. In these years, he was almost always drunk, almost always chasing (or being chased) by women. His gifts for language and storytelling are so well honed that when you read A Monk Swimming, "You'll laugh uncontrollably . . . You're in the grip of a master raconteur" (Houston Chronicle). Now the last of the McCourts of Limerick, Malachy reflects on the tumultuous events of the twenty-five years since he wrote A MONK SWIMMING in his Afterword. "Read it and weep: they don't make lives like this anymore." -The Irish Voice

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Welcome Rain Publishers LLC

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1566494176

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9781566494175

Le ceneri di Angela

By: Frank McCourt,C. V. Letizia

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Le ceneri di Angela

By: Frank McCourt,C. V. Letizia

Siamo negli anni fra le due guerre e le travagliate vicende coinvolgono una famiglia cosÃ¬ misera che puÃ² guardare dal basso la povertÃ , fra un padre perennemente ebbro e vociferante contro il mondo, gli inglesi e i protestanti, e una madre che sbrigativamente trascina la sua tribÃ¹ 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 comicitÃ e vitalitÃ contagiose, dove tutte le atrocitÃ diventano episodi e apparizioni di un viaggio battuto dal vento verso la terra promessa. Annotation Supplied by Informazioni Editoriali

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8845915611

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9788845915611

Les cendres d'Angela

une enfance irlandaise

By: Frank McCourt

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Les cendres d'Angela

une enfance irlandaise

By: Frank McCourt

Quand je revois mon enfance, le seul fait d'avoir survécu m'étonne. Ce fut, bien sûr, une enfance misérable : l'enfance heureuse vaut rarement qu'on s'y arrête. Pire que l'enfance misérable ordinaire est l'enfance misérable en Irlande. Et pire encore est l'enfance misérable en Irlande catholique. " C'est ce que décrit Frank McCourt dans ce récit autobiographique. Le père, Malachy, est un charmeur irresponsable. Quand, par chance, il trouve du travail, il va boire son salaire dans les pubs et rentre la nuit en braillant des chants patriotiques. Angela, la mère, ravale sa fierté pour mendier. Frankie, l'aîné de la fratrie, surveille les petits, fait les quatre cents coups avec ses copains. Et, surtout, observe le monde des adultes. La magie de Frank McCourt est d'avoir retrouvé son regard d'enfant, pour faire revivre le plus misérable des passés sans aucune amertume.

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2290305553

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9782290305553

Conflicting Communication Interests in America

The Case of National Public Radio

By: Tom McCourt

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Conflicting Communication Interests in America

The Case of National Public Radio

By: Tom McCourt

Public broadcasting has changed dramatically since its founding in 1967. The growing equation of marketplace efficiency with the public interest has, in Tom McCourt's analysis, undermined the value of public goods and services. In addition, political and cultural discourse is increasingly beset by fragmentation. Public radio provides an exemplary site to examine the prospects and problems of contemporary public life. Beginning with a description of the events that led to the creation of National Public Radio, McCourt discusses the relationship between NPR and its affiliate stations and the ways in which struggles over funding and programming have affected public radio's agenda. He also examines how public radio incorporates the roles of public representatives into its operations and how its methods to determine the needs and interests of the public have changed across the system's history. The social, political, and economic pressures that have impacted the mission and practices of National Public Radio, McCourt asserts, are manifest in all areas of American life. Through extensive historical research, he examines whether American public broadcasters, as represented by NPR, have succeeded or failed to engender an enlightened, participatory democracy.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313003262

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9780313003264

Britain and World Power Since 1945

Constructing a Nation's Role in International Politics

By: David M. McCourt

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Britain and World Power Since 1945

Constructing a Nation's Role in International Politics

By: David M. McCourt

After the fall of its empire, Britain still holds sway

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University of Michigan Press

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0472052217

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9780472052219

Inventing the Truth

The Art and Craft of Memoir

By: Alfred Kazin,Russell Baker,Jill Ker Conway,Frank McCourt,Toni Morrison,Eileen Simpson,Henry Louis Gates,Annie Dillard,Ian Frazier

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Inventing the Truth

The Art and Craft of Memoir

By: Alfred Kazin,Russell Baker,Jill Ker Conway,Frank McCourt,Toni Morrison,Eileen Simpson,Henry Louis Gates,Annie Dillard,Ian Frazier

The author of On Writing Well presents stories and advice on the writing process from Frank McCourt, Annie Dillard, and many more. For anyone who enjoys reading memoirs—or is thinking about writing one—this collection offers a master class from nine distinguished authors: Russell Baker, Jill Ker Conway, Annie Dillard, Ian Frazier, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alfred Kazin, Frank McCourt, Toni Morrison, and Eileen Simpson. “Annie Dillard talks of her Pittsburgh childhood and her moment of waking to the world outside. Russell Baker explains why his first draft of Growing Up was so bad that he had to start over again. Alfred Kazin finds that writing about his Brooklyn childhood connected him with the great tradition of Emerson and Whitman. Toni Morrison tells why her fiction uses not only family history but the slave narratives of her people. Lewis Thomas traces the evolution of his singular self from primeval bacteria to contemporary scientist whose drive to be useful is the most fundamental of all biological necessities. . . . Delightful and instructive.” —Library Journal

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HMH

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0547527454

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9780547527451

Danny Boy

The Legend Of The Beloved Irish Ballad

By: Malachy McCourt

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Danny Boy

The Legend Of The Beloved Irish Ballad

By: Malachy McCourt

Bestselling Irish-American author Malachy McCourt takes a fascinating historical look at the traditional folk song, Danny Boy, discovering its origin, lyricist, and the moving heritage that has grown around it. Everyone can hum this haunting Irish ballad that inevitably brings a tear to the eye. The most requested Irish song, it has been recorded by a variety of performers ranging from Elvis Presley, Bing Crosby, and Kate Smith to the Pogues. The complete story of this moving tune has been shrouded in mystery until now. Where did "Danny Boy" originate, who actually wrote the lyrics, and is it even Irish? Acclaimed novelist, actor, memoirist, screenwriter, playwright, and raconteur, Malachy McCourt, turns his Irish eye to the song's complex history and myths in an eloquent ode to this classic. He traces the evolution of the music, which is one of more than 100 songs composed to the very same tune, including the familiar "Londonderry Air," and explores the enduring mystique of "Danny Boy" in an unforgettable tribute that brilliantly weaves history with folklore.

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Running Press Adult

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0762455004

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9780762455003

Merry Christmas, Stinky Face

By: Lisa McCourt

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Merry Christmas, Stinky Face

By: Lisa McCourt

Fans of I Love You, Stinky Face, will love spending Christmas with their favorite pal! Fans of I Love You, Stinky Face, will love this Christmas story! Stinky Face loves Christmastime...but he still has plenty of questions. What if a big, wintry wind blows his Christmas tree away? What if one of the reindeer gets his antlers stuck in the branches that hang over the roof? Luckily, his imaginative Mama knows how to reassure him that Christmas will be magical! Now for the first time in 8x8I Love You, Stinky Face has sold over 1 million copies and still counting!

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Scholastic Inc.

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1338090658

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James Joyce

A Passionate Exile

By: John McCourt

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James Joyce

A Passionate Exile

By: John McCourt

Rare photographs, sketches, and illustrations by the great twentieth-century novelist are revealed in this collection of images from the life and literary work of James Joyce.

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140

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Macmillan

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0312269412

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9780312269418

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Statecraft in the South

By: W. McCourt

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Statecraft in the South

By: W. McCourt

This book draws on case studies of social, economic and political governance policies from Latin America, Africa and Asia to examine the circumstances in which governments and societies produce policies that overcome initial opposition to meet their aims.

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291

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Springer

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0230223079

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9780230223073

Cowpokes to Bike Spokes

The Story of Moab, Utah

By: Tom McCourt

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The Story of Moab, Utah

By: Tom McCourt

Factual and fascinating tales of adventures and life in the town of Moab.

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210

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Big Earth Publishing

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1555663966

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9781555663964

Digital Music Wars

Ownership and Control of the Celestial Jukebox

By: Patrick Burkart,Tom McCourt

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Digital Music Wars

Ownership and Control of the Celestial Jukebox

By: Patrick Burkart,Tom McCourt

With the rising popularity of online music, the nature of the music industry and the role of the Internet are rapidly changing. Rather than buying records, tapes, or CDs_in other words, full-length collections of music_music shoppers can, as they have in earlier decades, purchase just one song at a time. It's akin to putting a coin into a diner jukebox_except the jukebox is in the sky, or, more accurately, out in cyberspace. But has increasing copyright protection gone too far in keeping the music from the masses? Digital Music Wars explores these transformations and the far-reaching implications of downloading music in an in-depth and insightful way. Focusing on recent legal, corporate, and technological developments, the authors show how the online music industry will establish the model for digital distribution, cultural access, and consumer privacy. Music lovers and savvy online shoppers will want to read this book, as will students and researchers interested in new media and the future of online culture.

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180

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742536688

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9780742536685

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