Teacher Man: A Memoir by Frank McCourt (English) Paperback Book

Description: Teacher Man by Frank McCourt A third memoir from the author of the huge international bestsellers Angelas Ashes and Tis. In Teacher Man, Frank McCourt details his illustrious, amusing, and sometimes rather bumpy long years as an English teacher in the public high schools of New York City… FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A third memoir from the author of the huge international bestsellers Angelas Ashes and Tis. In Teacher Man, Frank McCourt details his illustrious, amusing, and sometimes rather bumpy long years as an English teacher in the public high schools of New York City… Frank McCourt arrived in New York as a young, impoverished and idealistic Irish boy â"â but one who crucially had an American passport, having been born in Brooklyn. He didnt know what he wanted except to stop being hungry and to better himself. On the subway he watched students carrying books. He saw how they read and underlined and wrote things in the margin and he liked the look of this very much. He joined the New York Public Library and every night when he came back from his hotel work he would sit up reading the great novels.Building his confidence and his determination, he talked his way into NYU and gained a literature degree and so began a teaching career that was to last 30 years, working in New Yorks public high schools. Frank estimates that he probably taught 12,000 children during this time and it is on this relationship between teacher and student that he reflects in â˜Teacher Manâ™, the third in his series of memoirs.The New York high school is a restless, noisy and unpredictable place and Frank believes that it was his attempts to control and cajole these thousands of children into learning and achieving something for themselves that turned him into a writer. At least once a day someone would put up their hand and shout Mr. McCourt, Mr. McCourt, tell us about Ireland, tell us about how poor you were â¦ Through sharing his own life with these kids he learnt the power of narrative storytelling, and out of the invaluable experience of holding 12,000 peoples attention came â˜Angelas Ashesâ™.Frank McCourt was a legend in such schools as Stuyvesant High School â"â long before he became the figure he is now he would receive letters from former students telling him how much his teaching influenced and inspired them â"â and now in â˜Teacher Manâ™ he shares his reminiscences of those 30 years and reveals how they led to his own success with â˜Angelas Ashesâ™ and â˜Tisâ™. Notes Paperback edition of the biography continuing on from Angelas Ashes and Tis. It was tremendously successful in hardback, selling over 100,000 copies in the UK and Ireland. Author Biography frank mccourt has published just one book, Angelas Ashes. It won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; it has sold 1.5 million copies in its Flamingo editions alone and tens of millions worldwide. For thirty years he taught in NYC schools, before, in his 60s, settling down to write his story. Review McCourt has a compulsion to tell us the story of his life, but he does it so well -- modulating beautifully from ventriloquistically exact repro teen-speak to rhapsodic meditations on his midlife crisis -- that one couldnt possibly want him to stop. I wish I could have been in one of his classes. Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Sunday Times This memoir about teaching is unlike any other I have read: relatively mundane events and incidents shine against that backdrop of that pathetic, abused child. Francis Gilbert, Sunday Telegraph Damn entertaining!McCourt is a master racouteur. Washington Post McCourts many fans will of course love this book, but it also should be mandatory reading for every teacher in America. And it wouldnt hurt some politicians to read it, too. Publishers Weekly As good as writing gets about teaching and learning and finding yourself through writing. USA Today Heart-warming. New York Times McCourt has an undeniable gift for turning a phrase. Boston Globe Long Description A third memoir from the author of the huge international bestsellers Angelas Ashes and Tis. In Teacher Man, Frank McCourt details his illustrious, amusing, and sometimes rather bumpy long years as an English teacher in the public high schools of New York City... Frank McCourt arrived in New York as a young, impoverished and idealistic Irish boy - Review Quote Praise for "Angelas Ashes":An astonishing book...completely mesmerising - you can open it almost at random and find writing to make you gasp. IndependentThe most remarkable thing about Frank McCourt, apart from his survival, is his lack of sorrowfulness. "Angelas Ashes" sings with irreverent Limerick wit. It makes you smile at the triumph of the storyteller. The TimesWriting in prose thats pictorial and tactile, lyrical but streetwise, Mr McCourt does for the town of Limerick what the young Joyce did for Dublin. New York TimesPraise for Tis:"Tis" is a work of great charm and power, perhaps even more so than its predecessor. Mail on SundayFew will be able to resist this pacey and fluent sequel. Guardian Feature Includes PS Section * Tremendously successful in hardback, selling over 100,000 copies in the UK and Ireland. * Stunning new Harper Perennial editions of Angelas Ashes and Tis have been reissued ahead of this third installment of the memoir. * Frank McCourts first book, Angelas Ashes, won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; it has sold almost 4 million copies in its HarperCollins editions alone and tens of millions worldwide. * Will be given a stunning new cover treatment. Description for Sales People A third memoir from the author of the huge international bestsellers Angelas Ashes and Tis. In Teacher Man, Frank McCourt details his illustrious, amusing, and sometimes rather bumpy long years as an English teacher in the public high schools of New York City... Frank McCourt arrived in New York as a young, impoverished and idealistic Irish boy - Details ISBN0007173997 Author Frank McCourt Pages 288 Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Year 2006 ISBN-10 0007173997 ISBN-13 9780007173990 Format Paperback Imprint HarperPerennial Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 974.71043092 Media Book Short Title TEACHER MAN Audience Age 14-18 Language English Residence New York, NY, US Birth 1930 Death 2009 Publication Date 2006-09-04 Subtitle A Memoir UK Release Date 2006-09-04 Alternative 9780007253876 Audience General AU Release Date 2007-04-30 NZ Release Date 2007-03-31 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:2763398;

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