Frank McCourt TIS A MEMOIR First Edition Signed
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Frank McCourt TIS A MEMOIR First Edition Signed
First edition first print hardback of 'TIS A MEMOIR by Frank McCourt and published by Flamingo in 1999. Signed to a previous owner by McCourt on the title page. Full numberline: 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2The book is in near fine condition (purple cloth boards with silver lettering to spine) with light general wear including tanning to pages, as is common with this title. The book is in a near fine unclipped dust jacket which also has light general wear. Internally the pages are otherwise clean and tight and there are no tears or other inscriptions.
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 humour 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.
385 pages
ISBN: 0002570807
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