Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for motivating, contemporary graded material that will instantly appeal to students. Angela's Ashes is based on the bes
Frank McCourtFrank McCourt was a writing teacher at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan for many years and performed with his brother Malachy in A Couple of Blaguards, a musical review about their Ir
"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
THE RUNAWAY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAND AUDIE AWARD WINNER"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
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
Book Club PickNew York TimesR Bestseller Publishers Weekly Bestseller Pulitzer Prize"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood
A Spanish-language version of a Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir captures all the power, passion, and pathos of these reflections on an impoverished Irish childhood and the family connections that kept h
There are approximately 40 million people of Irish descent in America today, and they are not the only ones who have made books such as How the Irish Saved Civilization and Angela's Ashes internation
In a true story that reads like an Italian Angela's Ashes, the best day of his life was the day that 32-year-old Frank Andreani returned to his birthplace, the United States of America. Surviving a g
Winner of an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation"No one in the world . . . can tell a story better than Gioia Timpanelli."--Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes"Gioia Timpanelli
This rock 'n' roll Angela's Ashes begins in County Wexford, Ireland, in the late 1950s, a now unrecognizable, priest-fearing backwater suffocating in superstition and strangled by sexual fevers. After
This exceptional novel about family, love, and the innocence and terror of childhood was one of the most applauded and auspicious debuts of the last year. Compared by reviewers to Angela's Ashes and
(Easy Piano Composer Collection). Over 40 beautiful easy piano arrangements of beloved John Williams themes, including: Theme from Angela's Ashes * Catch Me If You Can * Theme from E.T. (The Extra-Ter
Tis better to be born lucky than rich....There are many ways to confront tragedy and hard times. Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt's tragic--and ultimately uplifting--tale of how one man overcame adversit
(Piano Solo Composer Collection). Over 40 beautiful piano solo arrangements of beloved John Williams themes, including: Theme from Angela's Ashes * Cantina Band * Catch Me If You Can * Theme from E.T.
Over a decade ago Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at the age of 66, he burst onto the literary scene with Angela's Ashes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir of his childhood in Limerick, Ir
FROM THE PULIZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ANGELA'S ASHESFrank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere.
