'TIS : A Memoir
de McCourt, Frank
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- Estado
- Muy bueno/No dust jacket as issued
- Librería
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Easton Press, 1999-01-01. Leather Bound. Very Good/No dust jacket as issued. Signed by Author. Number 381 of 1600 signed by McCourt on the limitation page. CoA signed by McCourt and the publisher of Easton Press laid in. Full burgundy leather with gilt design on the panels; lettering and four raised bands on the spine. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text unmarked. Previous owner embossed label on the FFEP; blank EP bookplate on the FFEP, verso. All edges gilt. Sewn-in place marker. Moire endpapers. 8vo. 367pp.
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
- Chaparral Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- CHAPmccTME
- Título
- 'TIS : A Memoir
- Autor
- McCourt, Frank
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Leather Bound
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No dust jacket as issued
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Easton Press
- Fecha de publicación
- 1999-01-01
- Peso
- 1.19 libras
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
