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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... turn His back on a man drinking the pint when everyone knew you'd rarely hear a priest up in the pulpit denounce the pint or the men who drank it . Men with the thirst stayed in the back ready to streak out the door the minute the ...
... turn His back on a man drinking the pint when everyone knew you'd rarely hear a priest up in the pulpit denounce the pint or the men who drank it . Men with the thirst stayed in the back ready to streak out the door the minute the ...
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... turn out like that when I live in New York . He says I should put myself under the protection of the Virgin Mary and ask her to intercede with her Son to keep me pure and sober and out of harm's way . He'll pray for me all the way out ...
... turn out like that when I live in New York . He says I should put myself under the protection of the Virgin Mary and ask her to intercede with her Son to keep me pure and sober and out of harm's way . He'll pray for me all the way out ...
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... turning red and won- dering if I should tell the priest I'm sorry for what I did or if I should stay quiet . It's hard to know what to do when you make a mistake your first night in America but I'm sure in no time I'll be a regular Yank ...
... turning red and won- dering if I should tell the priest I'm sorry for what I did or if I should stay quiet . It's hard to know what to do when you make a mistake your first night in America but I'm sure in no time I'll be a regular Yank ...
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... turns off the light and starts snoring with- out even saying a Hail Mary or a prayer before sleep . I always thought ... turn on my side and go to sleep . Next day the priest finds a furnished room in the paper for six dollars a week and ...
... turns off the light and starts snoring with- out even saying a Hail Mary or a prayer before sleep . I always thought ... turn on my side and go to sleep . Next day the priest finds a furnished room in the paper for six dollars a week and ...
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... turn into drunks . Don't tell me , I know . My sister is married to an Irishman , worst thing she ever did . Irishmen great to go out with but don't marry them . She takes the six dollars and tells me she needs another six for security ...
... turn into drunks . Don't tell me , I know . My sister is married to an Irishman , worst thing she ever did . Irishmen great to go out with but don't marry them . She takes the six dollars and tells me she needs another six for security ...
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