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'Tis by Frank McCourt in 400 words
'Tis: A Memoir, by Frank McCourt (Flamingo, £17.99) digested in 400 words in the style of the original Buy it from BOL here.That's your dream out now. That's what my mother Angela would say when I was...
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No: 1558 Frank McCourt
Age: Top of the morning to you. No, how old is he? Ah, begorrah, you'll be after his age, will you? That's the long and short of it. B'jasus, if only I could remember. It's so long since he's lived in...
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From bleak house to great expectations
Alan Parker's compassion and humanity shine through in a rain-sodden adaptation of Frank McCourt's Angela's AshesCompassion for the downtrodden and a concern for the vulnerability of children have been...
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Frank McCourt is a serious fellow and he reads 'Tis seriously'TisFrank McCourt Read by the author HarperCollins £8.99, three hours approxBuy it at BOLFrank McCourt brought fame to the family name when...
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My work space - Frank McCourt
Frank McCourt needed to rid himself of rigid teacher hours to become a writer. Like James Joyce, he wanted to write any time, anywhere. The author of Angela's Ashes talks to Sandra Deeble about his...
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Supper with the Pope, canapes with Dali, lunch with Nureyev
Timothy Garton Ash, Frank McCourt, Lynn Barber, Piers Morgan and Dylan Jones remember the most memorable meals of their livesTimothy Garton AshThe academic on dinner with Pope John Paul II, 1987Once a...
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'I can't think of anything else I would rather have done'
Best-selling author Frank McCourt spent most of his working life as a teacher. Rebecca Smithers joins him on a visit to a school and finds he still knows how to win pupils overFrank McCourt is centre...
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Observer review: Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
Frank McCourt's account of his time working in New York high schools, Teacher Man, sees him on top form, says Rebecca SealTeacher Manby Frank McCourtFourth Estate £18.99, pp258Frank McCourt's stock in...
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In search of the new Frank McCourt
A new memoir, Home Is Where One Starts From, which is published in the UK this week, is different from any other book on the shelves. It has no marketing campaign, no advertising budget and no cover...
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Frank McCourt talks to Stephanie Merritt
Frank McCourt tells Stephanie Merritt why he has followed Irish misery with a fairy-tale endingFrank McCourt is about to return to his native Limerick, the city that denounced him from pulpit and...
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Frank McCourt treated for cancer
Angela's Ashes author undergoing chemotherapy for melanoma and 'doing pretty well'The bestselling author of Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt, is being treated for cancer, his publisher said today.McCourt,...
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Obituary: Frank McCourt
Author whose first and best-known book was his extraordinary memoir Angela's AshesFrank McCourt, who has died in his adopted city of New York aged 78 after suffering from cancer and meningitis, lived a...
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Bestselling author Frank McCourt dies at 78
Angela's Ashes sold millions but split Ireland'Epic of woe' details crime, death and deep povertyFrank McCourt, whose evocative tales of a poverty-stricken Irish childhood enthralled readers around the...
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Linklog: A Pynchonesque encounter, Frank McCourt remembered, and more
Salman Rushdie's dinner with Thomas Pynchon must have occurred during the year after the fatwa, to judge by the date of the review Rushdie is said to have been writing when they met. If you had to rely...
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Robert McCrum: Demons that lurked behind a dry Irish wit
I met Frank McCourt, who died last week, long after the heyday of Angela's Ashes, when he was briefly writer in residence at London's Savoy Hotel. He seemed slightly mystified by his duties but happy...
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'Tis by Frank McCourt in 400 words
'Tis: A Memoir, by Frank McCourt (Flamingo, £17.99) digested in 400 words in the style of the original Buy it from BOL here.That's your dream out now. That's what my mother Angela would say when I was...
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No: 1558 Frank McCourt
Age: Top of the morning to you. No, how old is he? Ah, begorrah, you'll be after his age, will you? That's the long and short of it. B'jasus, if only I could remember. It's so long since he's lived in...
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From bleak house to great expectations
Alan Parker's compassion and humanity shine through in a rain-sodden adaptation of Frank McCourt's Angela's AshesCompassion for the downtrodden and a concern for the vulnerability of children have been...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Audio
Frank McCourt is a serious fellow and he reads 'Tis seriously'TisFrank McCourt Read by the author HarperCollins £8.99, three hours approxBuy it at BOLFrank McCourt brought fame to the family name when...
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My work space - Frank McCourt
Frank McCourt needed to rid himself of rigid teacher hours to become a writer. Like James Joyce, he wanted to write any time, anywhere. The author of Angela's Ashes talks to Sandra Deeble about his...
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