Tis: A MemoirSimon and Schuster, 22.09.1999 г. - 368 страници 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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... Ireland and a dream we had came true . The one I had over and over was where I sailed into New York Harbor awed by the skyscrapers before me . I'd tell my brothers and they'd envy me for having spent a night in America till they began ...
... Ireland and a dream we had came true . The one I had over and over was where I sailed into New York Harbor awed by the skyscrapers before me . I'd tell my brothers and they'd envy me for having spent a night in America till they began ...
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... Ireland and have a nice pint and a mountain of bacon and cabbage . Owen spoke to me next day . He said he knew he was breaking the rules but he couldn't help talking to anyone on this ship who was reading Crime and Punishment . There ...
... Ireland and have a nice pint and a mountain of bacon and cabbage . Owen spoke to me next day . He said he knew he was breaking the rules but he couldn't help talking to anyone on this ship who was reading Crime and Punishment . There ...
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... Ireland where you share a carriage with five other people . This train has long cars where there are dozens of peo- ple and is so crowded some have to stand . The minute we get on people give up their seats to the priest . He says ...
... Ireland where you share a carriage with five other people . This train has long cars where there are dozens of peo- ple and is so crowded some have to stand . The minute we get on people give up their seats to the priest . He says ...
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... Ireland . It's hard enough com- ing here in the first place without priests criticizing you over your failure to hit it off with rich Kentucky Protestants , your ignorance of bath mats , the state of your underwear and your doubts about ...
... Ireland . It's hard enough com- ing here in the first place without priests criticizing you over your failure to hit it off with rich Kentucky Protestants , your ignorance of bath mats , the state of your underwear and your doubts about ...
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... Ireland's Thirty- Two , the All Ireland . I had my first pint in Limerick the day before I turned sixteen and it made me sick and my father nearly destroyed the family and himself with the drink but I'm lonely in New York and I'm lured ...
... Ireland's Thirty- Two , the All Ireland . I had my first pint in Limerick the day before I turned sixteen and it made me sick and my father nearly destroyed the family and himself with the drink but I'm lonely in New York and I'm lured ...
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