Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt, 1996
A boy grows up poor in Limerick with an often-absent father and a mother who keeps the family alive, told with comic timing that makes squalor bearable.
Frank McCourt
Frank McCourt's voice is the thing you notice first: a boy's clear eye and a grown man's timing, so that hunger and damp rooms arrive with a joke folded inside them. Angela's Ashes tells of growing up poor in Limerick, and Teacher Man carries that same voice into thirty years of New York classrooms. Start with Angela's Ashes; if the voice stays with you, Teacher Man shows where it went to work.
Feels like humor, wonder and identity.
Start with Angela's Ashes.
Frank McCourt was born in Brooklyn in 1930, grew up in Limerick, and taught writing in New York City public schools for nearly thirty years before publishing Angela's Ashes at 66.
What a teacher gives a boy whose shoes are already broken.
He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace. Books by Frank McCourt
Teacher Man
Frank McCourt, 2005
A New York teacher's wry, profane memoir of thirty years in public-school classrooms, where the real subject is how to become a person.
Tis
Frank McCourt, 1996
A memoir of poverty, education, and Irish identity, written with a voice of biting wit and deep, unexpected tenderness.
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