'Tis: A Memoir
Registered by deidramacleod of Natick, Massachusetts USA on 1/22/2009
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From Publishers Weekly
The appeal of McCourt as a reader of his own memoirs (Angela's Ashes flourished commercially on audio, in both abridged and unabridged formats) lies in his ability to express a sustained sense of wonder at the world around him. Also, his brogue is classic, an Irish species unto itself. Here he takes up where he left off in his last book, arriving in America. He is first guided by an Irish bartender who tells him to go to the New York Public Library and read Samuel Johnson. Thus assimilated, he becomes a supply clerk for the army, stationed in postwar Germany, then a warehouse laborer living in a rooming house, before earning a college degree at NYU and settling down as a teacher at a rowdy vocational high school in Staten Island. Along the way come romance and immigrant's-eye life observations aplenty, and a growing sense of knowingness develops even as McCourt's hopes are dashed against disillusions.
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This is the book - book; not the audiobook. I really enjoy McCourt's writing, it reminds me of how lucky I am to have been born and raised in the US as much as my Grandmother and Mum insist that Ireland is better than here.
Now I'm sending the book to a Bookmooch member in Trenton, Onterio.
The appeal of McCourt as a reader of his own memoirs (Angela's Ashes flourished commercially on audio, in both abridged and unabridged formats) lies in his ability to express a sustained sense of wonder at the world around him. Also, his brogue is classic, an Irish species unto itself. Here he takes up where he left off in his last book, arriving in America. He is first guided by an Irish bartender who tells him to go to the New York Public Library and read Samuel Johnson. Thus assimilated, he becomes a supply clerk for the army, stationed in postwar Germany, then a warehouse laborer living in a rooming house, before earning a college degree at NYU and settling down as a teacher at a rowdy vocational high school in Staten Island. Along the way come romance and immigrant's-eye life observations aplenty, and a growing sense of knowingness develops even as McCourt's hopes are dashed against disillusions.
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This is the book - book; not the audiobook. I really enjoy McCourt's writing, it reminds me of how lucky I am to have been born and raised in the US as much as my Grandmother and Mum insist that Ireland is better than here.
Now I'm sending the book to a Bookmooch member in Trenton, Onterio.
Received via bookmooch.com thanks so much!
This was an awesome read! I thought "Angela's Ashes" was better but this book did continue on nicely where Angela's Ashes left off. I really liked the ending, I thought it summed up very well and I would have liked it to have been longer!
Journal Entry 4 by Vapermom at Knights of Columbus Hall in Peterborough, Ontario Canada on Thursday, April 23, 2009
Released 14 yrs ago (4/23/2009 UTC) at Knights of Columbus Hall in Peterborough, Ontario Canada
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