Harper Collins UK TIS: A MEMOIR - MCCOURT, F.

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Publikace: TIS: A MEMOIR - MCCOURT, F.. 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. Publikace: TIS: A MEMOIR - MCCOURT, F.. Growing up dreadfully poor in Ireland, Frank McCourt dreamed of coasting into New York Harbor, a gateway to the land of opportunity. When he closed his red, infected eyes, the flea-ticked mattress he shared with his two brothers became a sailing ship and he was spirited off to a place where he believed no one wanted for a meal or the warm security of hearth and home. In ANGELA'S ASHES, McCourt tells of his alcoholic father who drank away the meager family income and his self-sacrificing mother w