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'Tis a memoir

This sequel to Angela's Ashes is the story of Frank McCourt's American journey from impoverished immigrant with rotten teeth, infected eyes and no formal education to raconteur and schoolteacher.

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  • "This sequel to Angela's Ashes is the story of Frank McCourt's American journey from impoverished immigrant with rotten teeth, infected eyes and no formal education to raconteur and schoolteacher."@en
  • "Memoir covering McCourt's American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur."
  • "Autobiografisch relaas over het leven van een Ier in het New York van de jaren 1950-1985,"
  • "Continues the sometimes harrowing tale of the author's youth as he immigrates from Ireland to the United States, joins the Army, goes to college, and begins building a life."@en
  • "Continues the sometimes harrowing tale of the author's youth as he immigrates from Ireland to the United States, joins the Army, goes to college, and begins building a life."
  • "The story of the author's American journey from impoverished immigrant with rotten teeth, infected eyes and no formal education to brilliant raconteur and schhoolteacher, showing the same vulnerable but invincible spirit at nineteen that he had at eight and still has today."@en
  • "In this sequel to Angela's ashes Frank McCourt portrays his life in America, first as a young Irish immigrant persuing his education and then as a teacher."
  • "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. 'Tis is the sequel to McCourt's best-selling memoir. Frank lands in New York at age nineteen and 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. When Frank returns to America in 1953, he works on the docks, always resisting what everyone tells him. He 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 and tries to live his dream. But it is not until he starts to teach that Frank finds his place in the world."@en
  • "The story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur."@en
  • "This sequel to Angela's Ashes is the story of Frank McCourt's American journey from impoverished immigrant with rotten teeth, infected eyes and no formal education to raconteur and schoolteacher. Saved first by a priest, then by the Democratic Party, then by the U.S. Army, and then by New York University."@en
  • "Memoir covering McCourt's American journey from impoverished immigrant to brillant teacher and raconteur."
  • "Sequel to Angela's ashes, this is the story of Frank McCourt's American journey, from impoverished immigrant to brilliant raconteur and schoolteacher. Saved first by a priest, then by the Democratic Party, then by the U.S. Army, and then by New York University."
  • "'Tis is the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant with rotten teeth, infected eyes and no formal education, to brilliant raconteur and schoolteacher. Saved first by a priest, then by the Democratic party, then by the United States Army, and then by NewYork University, 'Tis is a tale of survival as vivid, harrowing and often hilarious as Angela's Ashes."@en
  • "Memoir covering McCourt's American journey from impoverished immigrant to teacher and raconteur."
  • "McCourt continues his reminiscences from October 1949, when he arrives in New York City at age nineteen, until his father's funeral in 1985. Describes his adjustments to America--gaining an education, finding a career, marrying, and raising a family--interwoven with childhood memories. * Some strong language *"
  • "McCourt continues his reminiscences from October 1949, when he arrives in New York City at age nineteen, until his father's funeral in 1985. Describes his adjustments to America--gaining an education, finding a career, marrying, and raising a family--interwoven with childhood memories. * Some strong language *"@en
  • "Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by listeners 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 ..."@en

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