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'Tis: A Memoir
de Frank McCourt
- Usado
- Estado
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0684848783
- ISBN 13
- 9780684848785
- Librería
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Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Scribner. Used - Good. A sound copy with only light wear. Overall a solid copy at a great price!
Sinopsis
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 storytelling itself is the source of salvation, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Rarely has a book so swiftly found its place on the literary landscape. And now we have 'Tis, the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. Frank lands in New York at age nineteen, in the company of a priest he meets on the boat. He gets a job at the Biltmore Hotel, where he immediately encounters the vivid hierarchies of this "classless country," and then is drafted into the army and is sent to Germany to train dogs and type reports. It is Frank's incomparable voice -- his uncanny humor and his astonishing ear for dialogue -- that renders these experiences spellbinding. When Frank returns to America in 1953, he works on the docks, always resisting what everyone tells him, that men and women who have dreamed and toiled for years to get to America should "stick to their own kind" once they arrive. Somehow, Frank knows that he should be getting an education, and though he left school at fourteen, he talks his way into New York University. There, he falls in love with the quintessential Yankee, long-legged and blonde, and tries to live his dream. But it is not until he starts to teach -- and to write -- that Frank finds his place in the world. The same vulnerable but invincible spirit that captured the hearts of readers in Angela's Ashes comes of age. As Malcolm Jones said in his Newsweek review of Angela's Ashes, "It is only the best storyteller who can so beguile his readers that he leaves them wanting more when he is done...and McCourt proves himself one of the very best." Frank McCourt's 'Tis is one of the most eagerly awaited books of our time, and it is a masterpiece.
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Detalles
- Librería
- More Than Words Inc.
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- WAL-Q-4f-00261
- Título
- 'Tis: A Memoir
- Autor
- Frank McCourt
- Estado del libro
- Used - Good
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0684848783
- ISBN 13
- 9780684848785
- Editorial
- Scribner
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- September 21, 1999
Términos de venta
More Than Words Inc.
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Sobre el vendedor
More Than Words Inc.
Miembro de Biblio desde 2016
Waltham, Massachusetts
Sobre More Than Words Inc.
More Than Words empowers youth who are in foster care, court-involved, homeless or out of school to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business. MTW believes that when system-involved youth are challenged with authentic and increasing responsibilities in a business setting, and are given high expectations and a culture of support, they can and will address personal barriers to success, create concrete action plans for their lives, and become contributing members of society. More Than Words began as an online bookselling training program for youth in DCF custody in 2004 and opened its vibrant bookstore on Moody St in Waltham in 2005 and added its Starbucks coffee bar in 2008. MTW replicated its model in the South End of Boston in 2011, thereby doubling the number of youth served annually.
