'Tis: A Memoir

The #1 New York Times bestselling sequel to the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winn ing classic memoir, Angela's Ashes, about McCourt's coming of age as an imm igrant in America. Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved a nd celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profoun d humanity. A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself is the sourc e of salvation, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Ange les Times Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Rarely has a book so swiftly f ound its place on the literary landscape. And now we have 'Tis, the story of Frank's American journey from impoverish ed 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 j ob at the Biltmore Hotel, where he immediately encounters the vivid hierarc hies 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 ren ders 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 unt.

Product Info

ISBN: 0684848783

ISBN-13: 9780684848785

Publisher: Scribner

Year: 1999

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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