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...
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Author: McCourt, FrankSummary:
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Author: McCourt, FrankSummary:
Born in depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants, Frank McCourt experienced a childhood fraught with poverty and occasional cruelty. McCourt recounts his miserable existence with...
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Author: MCCOURT, FrankSummary:
Memoirs of Irish-American Frank McCourt. Looks back with sadness and affection at his first eighteen years of growing up in New York and Ireland.
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Author: Smith, TerenceSummary:
Making Words Dance: Perspectives on Red Smith, Journalism and Writing is a timely and timeless collection of lectures examining both the writer's art and the role of journalism in American culture...
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Author: Barr, DamianSummary:
Long-listed for the Green Carnation Prize and The Sunday Times' selection for Memoir of the Year. "This amazing book tells the story of an appalling childhood with truth and clarity unsmudged by...
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Author: Strunk, WilliamSummary:
Hailed for its directness and clever insight, this unorthodox textbook was born from a professor's love for the written word and perfected years later by one of his students--famed author E.B....
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Author: Synge, J. M.Summary:
An unforgettable look at a land that holds Ireland's ancestral language, culture and uncorrupted heart. Synge's lyrical glimpses into the past, coupled with Donal Donnely's rich, lilting voice,...