02566cam a2200409 i 4500 532100518 TxAuBib 990429s1999||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 99031280 9780684848785 0684848783 (OCoLC)52879124 DLC eng DLC EL$ BAKER BTCTA YDXCP CNNWL HALCL AU@ DEBBG Z27 TXBXL IG# OCLCQ BDX ICS OCLCQ OCLCF OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCQ COH OCLCO WIO TXAHM IDA SE4M6 OCLCO LMR TxAuBib rda McCourt, Frank. 'Tis : a memoir / Frank McCourt. New York, NY : Scribner, 1999. 367 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Sequel to: Angela's ashes. Read by the author. "'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."--Jacket. McCourt, Frank. Irish Americans Biography. Irish Americans. Irlandeses en Estados Unidos Biografía. New York (By.) Biografier (Form.) New York (N.Y) Biography. New York (N.Y) Biografía. New York (State) New York. Biography. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/simon031/99031280.html Sample text https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/simon051/99031280.html Contributor biographical information https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/simon033/99031280.html Publisher description