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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... mother . I told her it wasn't fair the way the whole family was invading my dreams and she said , Arrah , for the love o ' God , drink your tea and go to school and stop tormenting us with your dreams . My brother Alphie was only two ...
... mother . I told her it wasn't fair the way the whole family was invading my dreams and she said , Arrah , for the love o ' God , drink your tea and go to school and stop tormenting us with your dreams . My brother Alphie was only two ...
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... mother's warning , The devil you know is better than the devil you don't know . There were to be fourteen passengers on the ship but one canceled and we had to sail with an unlucky number . The first night out the captain stood up at ...
... mother's warning , The devil you know is better than the devil you don't know . There were to be fourteen passengers on the ship but one canceled and we had to sail with an unlucky number . The first night out the captain stood up at ...
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... mother's side and her mother is the worst cook in the world . Her husband was Italian and he really knew how to cook but she lost him in the war . Waw . That's what she says . She really means war but she's like all Americans who don't ...
... mother's side and her mother is the worst cook in the world . Her husband was Italian and he really knew how to cook but she lost him in the war . Waw . That's what she says . She really means war but she's like all Americans who don't ...
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... mother carried on with her hus- band's brother , Claudius , and the way my own mother in Limerick carried on with her cousin , Laman Griffin . I could understand Hamlet raging at his mother the way I did with my mother the night I had ...
... mother carried on with her hus- band's brother , Claudius , and the way my own mother in Limerick carried on with her cousin , Laman Griffin . I could understand Hamlet raging at his mother the way I did with my mother the night I had ...
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... mother gets ten of that and I have ten for food and the subway when it rains . The rest of the time I walk to save the nickel . Now and then I go mad with myself and go to a film at the Sixty - eighth Street Playhouse and I know enough ...
... mother gets ten of that and I have ten for food and the subway when it rains . The rest of the time I walk to save the nickel . Now and then I go mad with myself and go to a film at the Sixty - eighth Street Playhouse and I know enough ...
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