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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... keep them awake all night and they'd have no dreams at all . Michael was only six and here he was laughing at the picture of me going from one of them to the other trying to stop their dreams of the New York skyscrapers . Malachy said I ...
... keep them awake all night and they'd have no dreams at all . Michael was only six and here he was laughing at the picture of me going from one of them to the other trying to stop their dreams of the New York skyscrapers . Malachy said I ...
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... keep the faith . So , why can't you talk to the nice people from Kentucky and make something of yourself ? Whenever he brought up the rich people from Kentucky he whis- pered and I didn't know what to say . If my brother Malachy were ...
... keep the faith . So , why can't you talk to the nice people from Kentucky and make something of yourself ? Whenever he brought up the rich people from Kentucky he whis- pered and I didn't know what to say . If my brother Malachy were ...
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... keep an eye on me . When the ship docks we take a taxi to the big Union Station in Albany and while we wait for the train we have coffee in great thick cups and pie on thick plates . It's the first time I ever had lemon meringue pie and ...
... keep an eye on me . When the ship docks we take a taxi to the big Union Station in Albany and while we wait for the train we have coffee in great thick cups and pie on thick plates . It's the first time I ever had lemon meringue pie and ...
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... keep an eye on him . He doesn't know a soul in New York and I'm going to settle him in before I leave . The priest drinks his double martini and orders another with his steak . He tells me I should think of becoming a priest . He could ...
... keep an eye on him . He doesn't know a soul in New York and I'm going to settle him in before I leave . The priest drinks his double martini and orders another with his steak . He tells me I should think of becoming a priest . He could ...
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... keep down her electricity bill . I turn off the light and lie on the bed listening to New York , people talking and laughing , and I wonder if I'll ever be part of the city , out there talking and laughing . There's another knock at the ...
... keep down her electricity bill . I turn off the light and lie on the bed listening to New York , people talking and laughing , and I wonder if I'll ever be part of the city , out there talking and laughing . There's another knock at the ...
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