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'Tis : a memoir / S

Sequel to Angela's Ashes.

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  • "Tis"
  • "Tis"@en
  • "It is"@en
  • "Memoria"@en
  • "'Tis"@en

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  • "Sequel to Angela's Ashes."@en
  • "The author tells of his return to New York from Limerick, Ireland, and of his life there."@en
  • "The story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur."@en
  • ""'Tis is 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." "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."--Book Jacket from Scribner edition."@en
  • "The sequel to Frank McCourt's memoir of his Irish Catholic boyhood, Angela's Ashes, picks up the story in October 1949, upon his arrival in America. Though he was born in New York, the family had returned to Ireland due to poor prospects in the United States. Now back on American soil, this awkward 19-year-old, with his "pimply face, sore eyes, and bad teeth," has little in common with the healthy, self-assured college students he sees on the subway and dreams of joining in the classroom. Initially, his American experience is as harrowing as his impoverished youth in Ireland, including two of the grimmest Christmases ever described in literature. McCourt views the U.S. through the same sharp eye and with the same dark humor that distinguished his first memoir: race prejudice, casual cruelty, and dead-end jobs weigh on his spirits as he searches for a way out. A glimpse of hope comes from the army, where he acquires some white-collar skills, and from New York University, which admits him without a high school diploma. But the journey toward his position teaching creative writing at Stuyvesant High School is neither quick nor easy. Fortunately, McCourt's openness to every variety of human emotion and longing remains exceptional; even the most damaged, difficult people he encounters are richly rendered individuals with whom the reader can't help but feel uncomfortable kinship. The magical prose, with its singing Irish cadences, brings grandeur and beauty to the most sorrowful events, including the final scene, set in a Limerick graveyard."@en
  • "Story of Frank McCourt's American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur."@en
  • "Frank McCourt continues with his biography with his New York experiences at age 19. McCourt is drafted into the Army and is stationed in Germany. He returns to America in 1953 and attends New York University. He doesn't find his place in the world until he starts teaching."
  • "Autobiografisch relaas over het leven van een Ier in het New York van de jaren 1950-1985."
  • "Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, -- Angela's Ashes As Malcolm Jones said in his Newsweek'Tis is one of the most eagerly awaited books of our time, and it is a masterpiece."@en
  • "Frank McCourt, author of the childhood memoir "Angela's Ashes," shares the story of his life as an American immigrant, discussing his experiences from the age of nineteen when he landed in New York, to his eventual success as a teacher and writer."@en
  • "Autobiografisch relaas over het leven van een Ier in het New York van de jaren 1950-1985,"
  • "Hilarious and heartwarming! A very good read about immigrants and their life and death here in USA."
  • "Memoirs, life in New York for Irish Immigrant, becomes a teacher. Sequel to Angela's Ashes."@en
  • "The author of Angela's Ashes tells the story of his journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur."@en
  • "The story of the author's American journey from impoverished immigrant with rotten teeth, infected eyes and no formal education to brilliant raconteur and schoolteacher, showing the same vulnerable but invincible spirit at nineteen that he had at eight and still has today."@en

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  • "Roman américain"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Erlebnisbericht"
  • "Readers"
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Biography"
  • "Powieść autobiograficzna amerykańska"
  • "Biographies"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Autobiographie 1949-1985"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Herinneringen (vorm)"

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  • "'Tis : a memoir / S"@en
  • "Lo es : una memoria"@en
  • "'Tis : a memoir : [the sequel to Angela's ashes]"
  • "' Tis : a memoir"
  • "'Tis"@en
  • "'Tis"
  • "'Tis : a memoir ; sequel to : Angela ashes B. 2"@en
  • "'Tis : a Memoir : a memoir"@en
  • "'Tis a memoir"
  • "'Tis a memoir"@en
  • "'Tis : a memoir (A sequel to Angela's ashes)"
  • "'Tis, a memoir"
  • "De! : önéletrajz 19 éves koromtól"@hu
  • "De! : önéletrajz 19 éves koromtól"
  • "'Tis: a memoir"
  • "'Tis : a memoir"@en
  • "'Tis : a memoir"
  • ""TIS A Memoir"
  • "Lo es :[continuacion de Las cenizas de Angela]"
  • ""Tis A Memoir"@en
  • "Lo es"@en
  • "Lo es"
  • "Lo es"@es
  • "'Tis a memoir /cFrank McCourt"@en
  • "'Tis : A MEMOIR"@en
  • "'TIS : a Memoir"@en
  • "'tis : A Memoir"@en
  • "Tis a Memoir"@en

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