Details Books As Angela's Ashes/'Tis/Teacher Man
| ISBN: | 0007777345 (ISBN13: 9780007777341) |
Frank McCourt
Hardcover | Pages: 231 pages Rating: 4.35 | 398 Users | 24 Reviews
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| Title | : | Angela's Ashes/'Tis/Teacher Man |
| Author | : | Frank McCourt |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 231 pages |
| Published | : | 2005 by Scribner |
| Categories | : | Biography. Autobiography. Memoir |
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One of the best books I've ever read. McCourt is such a gifted storyteller, you forget that he wrote this as a 66 year old man conjuring up his childhood in Brooklyn and Limerick, Ireland. Despite the extreme poverty of his childhood, it's really not depressing. The people of his world are funny, whimsical, horrible . . . rather like Dickens characters. There is no self-victimizing. He describes what happened, describes his mixed emotions (at times kind of skips over them, too, leaving the events to stand by themselves), shows us his strengths as well as his weaknesses. The movie is awesome, too.Rating Epithetical Books Angela's Ashes/'Tis/Teacher Man
Ratings: 4.35 From 398 Users | 24 ReviewsWrite-Up Epithetical Books Angela's Ashes/'Tis/Teacher Man
Frank McCourt was over 60 when his first book a memoir was published and got a Pulitzer. Sound like something out of a book, but it's true and sometimes the truth can indeed be stranger than fiction. Following the success of his first book 'Angela's Ashes', he wrote 2 other follow up memoirs, tracing different parts of his life. In the best of cases, the term 'memoir' is pretty ambiguous, considering our propensity to selectively remember (unconsciously) only certain events and that too only inThe Irish trilogy of memoir. Great storyteller. You'll be thinking in Irish after this. Teacher Man is my personal favorite for personal reasons, but the book will not make you want to go into the profession. Beware of catching fatigue and disillusionment.
All three a poignant look at a family desparate to survive and grow up through Ireland's famine and unemployment in the '30s. The strength of McCourt's mother and the sacrifices she made for her sons though the father was often absent or drunk was heartbreaking and yet the life that Frank made for himself as a teacher as an adult bring things together.
Loved the first book. The second and third were so different from the first.
Good stuff - "Angela's Ashes" was harrowing at times.
Brilliant, superb. It makes clear statements about how life was, for a small period in the US, but mostly about growing up in Ireland.
There were so many gems of truth about teaching throughout the novel. The gems were often found amidst a lot of rambling. I have a hard time believing that McCourt was constantly not knowing what he was doing. It is frightening that people could stumble into teaching and make a career out of it.
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