'Tis : a memoir
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'Tis : a memoir
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- Label
- 'Tis : a memoir
- Title remainder
- a memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Frank McCourt
- Title variation
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- It is
- is
- Subject
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- McCourt, Frank
- trueSelf-acceptance
- trueMcCourt family
- trueLife stories -- Arts and culture | Writing | Authors
- trueFamily relationships
- Irish Americans -- Biography
- Irlandeses en Estados Unidos -- Biografía
- trueArts and Entertainment -- Writing and Publishing
- trueImmigration and emigration
- trueNew York City -- Biography
- trueImmigrants, Irish
- trueAuthors -- 20th century -- Biography
- trueHigh school teachers
- trueCreative writing teachers -- Biography
- trueMcCourt, Frank, 1931- -- Family
- trueIrish Americans -- Biography
- New York (N.Y.) -- Biography
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- New York (N.Y.) -- Biografía
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "'Tis is the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. Frank lands in New York at age nineteen, in the company of a priest he meets on the boat. He gets a job at the Biltmore Hotel, where he immediately encounters the vivid hierarchies of this "classless country," and then is drafted into the army and is sent to Germany to train dogs and type reports." "When Frank returns to America in 1953, he works on the docks, always resisting what everyone tells him, that men and women who have dreamed and 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, and though he left school at fourteen, he talks his way into New York University. There, he falls in love with the quintessential Yankee, long-legged and blonde, and tries to live his dream. But it is not until he starts to teach - and to write - that Frank finds his place in the world."--BOOK JACKET
- Award
- New York Times Notable Book, 1999
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
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- 974.7/10049162/0092
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- E184.I6
- LC item number
- M118 1999
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Target audience
- adult
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