McCourt, Frank Teacher Man: A Memoir ISBN 13: 9780007173990

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Paperback. Pub Date :2006-09-04 Pages: 288 Language: English Publisher:. HarperCollins UK A third memoir from the author of the huge international bestsellers Angelas Ashes and Tis In Teacher Man. Frank McCourt details his illustrious. amusing. and sometimes rather bumpy long years as an English teacher in the public high schools of New York City.Frank McCourt arrived in New York as a young. impoverished and idealistic Irish boy - but one who crucially had an American passport. having been born in Brooklyn He. didnt know what he wanted except to stop being hungry and to better himself. On the subway he watched students carrying books. He saw how they read and underlined and wrote things in the margin and he liked the look of this very much. He joined the New York Public Library and every night when he came back from his hotel work he would sit up reading the great novels.Bui...

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Frank McCourt's first book, `Angela's Ashes', won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He taught in various New York City high schools and in city colleges. His sequel to `Angela's Ashes', ``Tis', continued its predecessor's huge success. He lives with his wife in New York.
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`McCourt has a compulsion to tell us the story of his life, but he does it so well - modulating beautifully from ventriloquistically exact repro teen-speak to rhapsodic meditations on his midlife crisis - that one couldn't possibly want him to stop. I wish I could have been in one of his classes.' Sunday Times `This memoir about teaching is unlike any other I have read: relatively mundane events and incidents shine against that backdrop of that pathetic, abused child.' Francis Gilbert, Sunday Telegraph `In this third memoir, McCourt recounts his years as a high-school teacher in New York, where he would stop at nothing to reach his surly charges. Nine times out of 10, his approach was successful and it is exhilarating to see these generations of tough-talking teenagers blossom.' Observer

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  • PublisherHarper Perennial
  • Publication date2006
  • ISBN 10 0007173997
  • ISBN 13 9780007173990
  • BindingPaperback
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages288
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