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Frank McCourt - Teacher Man - 9780007173990 - KTG0013415
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Teacher Man

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Description for Teacher Man Paperback. A third memoir from the author of the huge international bestsellers Angela's 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.. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 206. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.

A third memoir from the author of the huge international bestsellers Angela’s 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 – but one who crucially had an American passport, having been born in Brooklyn. He didn't know what he wanted except to stop being hungry and to better himself. On the subway he watched ... Read more

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 York's 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 ‘Teacher Man’, 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 …' 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 people's attention came ‘Angela's Ashes’.

Frank McCourt was a legend in such schools as Stuyvesant High School – 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 – and now in ‘Teacher Man’ he shares his reminiscences of those 30 years and reveals how they led to his own success with ‘Angela's Ashes’ and ‘'Tis’.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007173990
SKU
KTG0013415
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Frank McCourt
Frank McCourt’s first book, ‘Angela’s Ashes’, won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He taught in various New York City high schools and in city colleges. His sequel to ‘Angela’s Ashes’, ‘‘Tis’, continued its predecessor’s huge success. He lives with his wife in New York.

Reviews for Teacher Man
‘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 couldn’t possibly want him to stop. I wish I could have been in one of his classes.’ Sunday Times ... Read more

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