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Angela and the Baby Jesus by Frank McCourt
Category: Philosophy and Religion
An evocative Christmas story, from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of the phenomenally best-selling memoir, Angela's Ashes. This wonderful Christmas story is based on an incident from the childhood of Frank McCourt's mother, Angela. When six-year-old Angela sees the Baby Jesus in the Christmas crib at ...Show more
Angela and the Baby Jesus by Frank McCourt
Category: Philosophy and Religion
A beautifully illustrated Christmas story from one of the world's most loved writers. In 'Angela and the Baby Jesus', McCourt revisits his mother's childhood. Set in Limerick at the turn of the century, 'Angela and the Baby Jesus' is the story of the Christmas when Angela was six and concerned about the ...Show more
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Category: Biography
A Memoir Of A ChildhoodA sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 1930s and in Ireland in the 1940s. 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 Malac ...Show more
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Category: Biography Memoir
WINNER OF THE 1997 PULITZER PRIZE, THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS
Angela's Ashes : A Memoir by Frank McCourt
Category: Biography
Angela's Ashes, imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic. "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 y ...Show more
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir of a Childhood by Frank McCourt
Category: Biography
Angela's Ashes, imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic. "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 y ...Show more
Angela's Ashes: A memoir of childhood by Frank McCourt
Category: Biography
Angela's Ashes is 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 ...Show more
Pearson Readers Level 4: "Teacher Man" by Frank McCourt
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Penguin Readers Simplified Text
Contemporary / American English (Available February 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 ma ...Show more
Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
Category: Biography Memoir
Here at last in paperback is Frank McCourt's critically acclaimed and bestselling book about how his thirty-year teaching career shaped his second act as a writer. "Teacher Man" is also an urgent tribute to teachers everywhere. In bold and spirited prose featuring his irreverent wit and heartbreaking ho ...Show more
Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
Category: Biography
A 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 y ...Show more
Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
Category: Fiction
A third memoir from the author of the huge international bestsellers Angela's Ashes and 'Tis. In Teacher Man, Frank McCourt reads his own account of his illustrious, amusing, and sometimes rather bumpy long years as an English teacher in the public high schools of New York City. Frank McCourt was a lege ...Show more