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 does nurture …
'Tis is a memoir written by Frank McCourt. Published in 1999, it begins where McCourt ended Angela's Ashes, his Pulitzer Prize winning memoir of his impoverished childhood in Ireland and his return to America.
No passado mês de Julho, Frank McCourt morreu aos 78 anos, vítima de cancro da pele. Autor dos livros As Cinzas de Ângela e Esta É a Minha Terra, ambos publicados em Portugal pela Presença, conquistou a preferência do público e da crítica ao receber em 1997 o prestigiado Prémio Pulitzer, adaptado ao grande ecrã em …