Malachy McCourt Bücher

1952 verlässt Malachy McCourt das irische Limerick, den Ort seiner Kindheit, den Ort der Armut und der Erniedrigung. Auf der "America" bricht er nach New York auf. Der Autor erinnert sich an seine Flucht vor dem trinkenden Vater, an die Ausschweifungen in New York. Mitten im wilden Lebensrausch bemerkt er, dass er den Erinnerungen an Limerick und den Prägungen durch seine Eltern nicht entfliehen kann.

A photographic portrait of the Irish landscape and its people commemorates traditional regional life with a range of duotone photographs, complemented with texts by best-selling Irish-American authors including Angela's Ashes's Frank McCourt and Singing My Him Song's, Malachy McCourt. 35,000 first printing.

Malachy McCourt grew up in Limerick amid death, squalor, poverty and abuse. When he went to America as a young man, he took with him a gargantuan appetite for what life has to offer - and an equal drive to forget what it had delivered so far. In A Monk Swimming, he caroused his way all over the world, becoming a familiar face in movies and television, and in bars from Paris to Calcutta.

New York Times bestselling author Malachy McCourt offers an authoritative and engrossing one-volume chronicle of Ireland from pre-Christian times to the present, told with Irish flair by the gifted storyteller. The pages are populated with figures from myth, history, and the present-from Saint Patrick to Oliver Cromwell, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, and Charles Parnell to Sinead O'Connor and Bono. Some beloved, some controversial-each influenced the course of Irish and world history. While McCourt vividly describes Ireland's turbulent history, he also offers a cultural survey with fresh insights to the folklore, literature, art, music, and cuisine of Ireland, producing an irresistible tour through the Emerald Isle.