'Tis

Gail Caldwell Boston Sunday Globe That magnificent voice is back in full, as captivating and soothing as an on-stage hypnotist. Regaling you from a bar stool or teacher’s lectern, McCourt is utterly and always in charge of this tale….A sweet, sweet ode to memory: to the moment-to-moment experience of a real, then reimagined, life.
Henry Kisor Chicago Sun-Times ‘Tis a grand book. ‘Tis indeed!
Jackie Jones Bleecker The San Diego Union-Tribune ‘Tis is, finally, a triumphant American story – the triumph of a teacher…of a writer whose words we can’t wait to read.
Mary Ann Gwinn The Seattle Times McCourt establishes himself as a Dickens for our time, a writer who can peel the many layers of society like an onion and reveal the core.
Maureen Howard The New York Times Book Review ‘Tis a success story, after all.
Peter Collier Los Angeles Times Book Review ‘Tis has those elements that made Angela’s Ashes such a success – the narrative brio, the fierce sympathy for human tic and torment, the intuitive feel for character and, above all, the love of language and that very Irish understanding that words are our only weapon in our long quarrel with God.

Frank McCourt (1930-2009) was an Irish American writer and teacher who was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Irish immigrant parents, grew up in Limerick, Ireland, and returned to America in 1949. For thirty years he taught in New York City high schools.

His first memoir, Angela’s Ashes, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He continued the story of his life, immigration, and teaching career in the bestselling memoirs ‘Tis and Teacher Man.

In 2006, he received the Ellis Island Family Heritage Award for Exemplary Service in the Field of the Arts and the United Federation of Teachers John Dewey Award for Excellence in Education.

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