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'Tis: A Memoir
de McCourt, Frank
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Aceptable/N-Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0684848783
- ISBN 13
- 9780684848785
- Librería
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Lewisville, Texas, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
New York: Scribner, 1999. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition/First Printing. A square solid tight very carefully read copy if at all. The priced jacket has some light edgewear else fine. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND NORMALLY SHIPS NEXT DAY..
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
- Pat Cramer, Bookseller
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 035809
- Título
- 'Tis: A Memoir
- Autor
- McCourt, Frank
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- N-Fine
- Edición
- First Edition/First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0684848783
- ISBN 13
- 9780684848785
- Editorial
- Scribner
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1999
- Palabras clave
- /
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Auto-Biography;
Términos de venta
Pat Cramer, Bookseller
I accept cash, checks, money orders and bank cards. International orders paid by check must be made out to a United States bank branch. International orders paid by money order must be a postal money order made out in United States dollars. You can return any book that you purchase from me if you are not satisfied with it.
Sobre el vendedor
Pat Cramer, Bookseller
Miembro de Biblio desde 2006
Lewisville, Texas
Sobre Pat Cramer, Bookseller
I have been selling used and rare books internationally since 1985.I tend to list modern fiction because that is what i know the most about.I specialize on horror and suspense fiction because these are two areas that i enjoy most and because they are two areas that I know the most aboutI am not a generalist dealer but I have been known to list a small percentage of anything that looks interesting to me, fiction and non-fiction, to bring new customers to my site.
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