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'TIS: A Memoir.

de McCourt, Frank

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New York:: Scribner,, (1999). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First US printing. Sequel to his Pulitzer Prize- winning 'Angela's Ashes' which described his childhood, This covers his journey from impoverished immigrant, through the Army, college and on to his life as a schoolteacher and raconteur. 367 pp.

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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Librería
Bookfever.com, IOBA US (US)
Inventario del vendedor #
86507
Título
'TIS: A Memoir.
Autor
McCourt, Frank
Formato/Encuadernación
Hardcover first edition -
Estado del libro
Usado - Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Estado de la sobrecubierta
near fine
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Editorial
Scribner,
Lugar de publicación
New York:
Fecha de publicación
(1999)
Palabras clave
irish, irish american, immigrants,
Catálogos del vendedor
Biography, autobiography, memoirs;

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