by Malachy McCourt · Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783596149728
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«Der Junge aus Limerick» is a memoir by Malachy McCourt, published by Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt in paperback (331 pages, in German).
In 1952 Malachy McCourt left the poverty of Limerick and travelled third class to America with wild humour, a gift for storytelling, rage and a determination never to go hungry again. He fled a drunken, absent father and the humiliation of his mother Angela: moving and comic memoirs about starting over and making peace with the past.
Translation by Claudia Feldmann; original title: «A Monk Swimming» (1998).
For readers of memoirs, Irish literature and stories of emigration told with humour.
Malachy Gerard McCourt was an American-Irish actor, writer and politician. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Limerick, McCourt appeared in several films and soap operas, including The Molly Maguires, Brewster's Millions (1985), and Another World. He also wrote three memoirs, describing his life in Ireland and in the United States. McCourt was the 2006 Green Party candidate for governor of New York, losing to the Democratic candidate Eliot Spitzer. He was the younger brother of author Frank McCourt.
