Tis: A Memoir Stories of & by NY Times Bestseller Frank McCourt Paperback Book

Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved & celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit & its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself is the source of salvation, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award, LA Times Book Award & Pulitzer Prize. Rarely has a book so swiftly found its place on the literary landscape. And now we have 'Tis. Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher & raconteur. Frank lands in NY at age nineteen, in the company of a priest he meets on the boat. He gets a job at the Biltmore Hotel, immediately encounters the vivid hierarchies of this "classless country," & then is drafted into the army & sent to Germany to train dogs & type reports. It is Frank's incomparable voice, his uncanny humor & his astonishing ear for dialogue that renders these experiences spellbinding. When he returns to America in 1953, he works on the docks, always resisting what everyone tells him, that men & women who have dreamed & 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, & though he left school at 14, he talks his way into NYU. He falls in love w/ the quintessential Yankee, long-legged & blonde & tries to live his dream. When he starts to teach & write he finds his place in the world & comes of age.