{"title":"Frank Mccourt Memoirs","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"teacher-man-book-frank-mccourt-9780743243773","title":"Teacher Man","description":"\u003cb\u003eNearly a decade ago Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at the age of sixty-six, he burst onto the literary scene with \u003ci\u003eAngela's Ashes, \u003c\/i\u003e the Pulitzer Prize -- winning memoir of his childhood in Limerick, Ireland. Then came \u003ci\u003e'Tis, \u003c\/i\u003e his glorious account of his early years in New York.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow, here at last, is McCourt's long-awaited book about how his thirty-year teaching career shaped his second act as a writer. \u003ci\u003eTeacher Man\u003c\/i\u003e is also an urgent tribute to teachers everywhere. In bold and spirited prose featuring his irreverent wit and heartbreaking honesty, McCourt records the trials, triumphs and surprises he faces in public high schools around New York City. His methods anything but conventional, McCourt creates a lasting impact on his students through imaginative assignments (he instructs one class to write An Excuse Note from Adam or Eve to God), singalongs (featuring recipe ingredients as lyrics), and field trips (imagine taking twenty-nine rowdy girls to a movie in Times Square ). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMcCourt struggles to find his way in the classroom and spends his evenings drinking with writers and dreaming of one day putting his own story to paper. \u003ci\u003eTeacher Man\u003c\/i\u003e shows McCourt developing his unparalleled ability to tell a great story as, five days a week, five periods per day, he works to gain the attention and respect of unruly, hormonally charged or indifferent adolescents. McCourt's rocky marriage, his failed attempt to get a Ph.D. at Trinity College, Dublin, and his repeated firings due to his propensity to talk back to his superiors ironically lead him to New York's most prestigious school, Stuyvesant High School, where he finally finds a place and a voice. Doggedness, he says, is not as glamorous as ambition or talent or intellect or charm, but still the one thing that got me through the days and nights. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor McCourt, storytelling itself is the source of salvation, and in \u003ci\u003eTeacher Man\u003c\/i\u003e the journey to redemption -- and literary fame -- is an exhilarating adventure.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49525418918161,"sku":"CIN0743243773G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49574453903633,"sku":"GOR001012055","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49642936074513,"sku":"GOR006112313","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50113394114833,"sku":"CIN0743243773A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50313549152529,"sku":"CIN0743243773VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0743243773.jpg?v=1750848571"},{"product_id":"tis-book-frank-mccourt-9780684864495","title":"Tis","description":"A #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller and the eagerly anticipated sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eAngela's Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e, this masterpiece from Frank McCourt tells of his American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, \u003ci\u003eAngela's Ashes, \u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Rarely has a book so swiftly found its place on the literary landscape. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd now we have \u003ci\u003e'Tis, \u003c\/i\u003e 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. 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The same vulnerable but invincible spirit that captured the hearts of readers in \u003ci\u003eAngela's Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e comes of age. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Malcolm Jones said in his \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e review of \u003ci\u003eAngela's Ashes, \u003c\/i\u003e 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. 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