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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... people are singing and laughing and calling for the church key . The priest says they're college kids going home for the week- end and the church key is the can opener for the beer . He says they're probably nice kids but they shouldn't ...
... people are singing and laughing and calling for the church key . The priest says they're college kids going home for the week- end and the church key is the can opener for the beer . He says they're probably nice kids but they shouldn't ...
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... they're back on the due date . I ask if they have book called The Lives of the English Poets by Samuel Johnson and they say , My , my , my , you're reading Johnson . I want to tell them I never read John- son before but I don't want them ...
... they're back on the due date . I ask if they have book called The Lives of the English Poets by Samuel Johnson and they say , My , my , my , you're reading Johnson . I want to tell them I never read John- son before but I don't want them ...
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... they rush back and forth , running into each other and barking in Greek . They tell me , You , Irish , come ' ere ... re easy with the girls . They talk and laugh and the girls lift their glasses and smile at the boys with shining eyes ...
... they rush back and forth , running into each other and barking in Greek . They tell me , You , Irish , come ' ere ... re easy with the girls . They talk and laugh and the girls lift their glasses and smile at the boys with shining eyes ...
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... people say , Shush , we're trying to watch this film . I know they're not the ordinary type of people who go to gangster films or musicals . These are people who probably graduated from college and live on Park Avenue and know every ...
... people say , Shush , we're trying to watch this film . I know they're not the ordinary type of people who go to gangster films or musicals . These are people who probably graduated from college and live on Park Avenue and know every ...
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... they were before . I can stand in the shower and let hot water run on my eyes till they feel warm and clean even if they're still blazing red in my head . I try to freeze the red away with icy cold water but it never works . It just ...
... they were before . I can stand in the shower and let hot water run on my eyes till they feel warm and clean even if they're still blazing red in my head . I try to freeze the red away with icy cold water but it never works . It just ...
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