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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... move beyond Edgar Wallace or Zane Grey and he'd give anything to be able to chat about Dostoyevsky . He wanted to ... moved away . The priest said , Were you talking to that man ? I could see you were . Well , I'm telling you he's not ...
... move beyond Edgar Wallace or Zane Grey and he'd give anything to be able to chat about Dostoyevsky . He wanted to ... moved away . The priest said , Were you talking to that man ? I could see you were . Well , I'm telling you he's not ...
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... move in anytime that day and she trusts me because I came with that nice priest even if she's not Catholic herself , that it's enough her sister married one , an Irishman , God help her , and she's suffering for it . The priest calls ...
... move in anytime that day and she trusts me because I came with that nice priest even if she's not Catholic herself , that it's enough her sister married one , an Irishman , God help her , and she's suffering for it . The priest calls ...
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... moving up and down . The waiter loses his smile . Goddam , he's gotta pay his check . Where's his goddam wallet ? Back pocket , kid . Hand it to me . I can't rob a priest . You're not robbing . He's paying his goddam check and you're ...
... moving up and down . The waiter loses his smile . Goddam , he's gotta pay his check . Where's his goddam wallet ? Back pocket , kid . Hand it to me . I can't rob a priest . You're not robbing . He's paying his goddam check and you're ...
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... move among them ashamed of my uniform and my dustpan and broom . I wish I could be invisible but I can't when the waiters yell at me in Greek and English and something in between or a busboy might accuse me of interfering with an ...
... move among them ashamed of my uniform and my dustpan and broom . I wish I could be invisible but I can't when the waiters yell at me in Greek and English and something in between or a busboy might accuse me of interfering with an ...
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... move away . I tell him , Excuse me , and go by him up the aisle and out to the men's lavatory where I'm able to open my pie box in comfort without Park Avenue shushing me . I feel sorry over missing part of Hamlet but all they were ...
... move away . I tell him , Excuse me , and go by him up the aisle and out to the men's lavatory where I'm able to open my pie box in comfort without Park Avenue shushing me . I feel sorry over missing part of Hamlet but all they were ...
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