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 boy 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.
El exito de libreria numero 1 del New York Times
" 'Lo es' es despues de todo, una historia de exito."--Maureen Howard, The New York Time Book Review
" 'Lo es' es un gran libro. Claro que lo es!"--Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times
" 'Lo es', por fin, una triunfante historia estadounidense--el triunfo de un maestro. . . de un escritor cuyas palabras estamos ansiosos por leer."--Jackie Jones Bleecker, The San Diego Union-Tribune
"Esa magnifica voz ha regresado en plena forma, tan cuativadora y calmante como un hipnotizador de teatro. Deleitandole desde la banqueta de un bar o desde el atril de un maestro, McCourt esta constante y totalment en dominio de esta hisoria. . . Una dulce, dulce oda a la memoria: a la experiencia minuto a minuto de una vida real, vuelta despues a imaginar."--Gail Caldwell, Boston Sunday Globe
"McCourt se situa como un Dickens de nuestros tiempos, un escritor que puede quitarle a la sociedad sus numerosas capas como si fuera una cebolla, y revelar su centro."--Mary Ann Gwinn, The Seattle Times
" 'Lo es' tiene esos elementos que hicieron de 'Las cenizas de Angela' un exito tal: el impetu narrativo, la profunda compenetracion con el dolor humano, el sentimiento intuitivo de los personaljes y, sobre todo, el amor por el idioma y ese entedimiento, tan irlandes, de que las palabras son nuestra unica arma en nuestra larga disputa con Dios."--Peter Collier, Los Angeles Times Book Review
