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by Frank McCourt (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd; First Printing edition (15 Nov 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007173989
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007173983
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.6 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 256,892 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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PRAISE FOR ANGELA'S ASHES: 'An astonishing book ! completely mesmerising -- you can open it almost at random and find writing to make you gasp.' Independent PRAISE FOR 'TIS: 'Few will be able to resist this pacey and fluent sequel... McCourt's gift lies not simply in having lived through interesting times, but in having developed his skills as an editor and narrator to produce two fine, funny and moving slices of a past that is not simply Ireland's, but everyone's.' Guardian PRAISE FOR ANGELA'S ASHES: 'Brilliant and seductive.' THOMAS KENEALLY, author of Schindler's List 'Writing in prose that's pictorial and tactile, lyrical but streetwise, Mr McCourt does for the town of Limerick what the young Joyce did for Dublin: he conjures the place for us with such intimacy that we feel we've walked its streets and crawled its pubs.' New York Times PRAISE FOR 'TIS: "Tis is a work of great charm and power, perhaps even more so than its predecessor.' Mail on Sunday

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'This book is charming...lilting style and phonetic writing that marked out his last two books...a really good read.'
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant!, 2 Jan 2007
By R. Jones "English Teacher" (S. Wales) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Teacher Man (Paperback)
I LOVE this book, possibly because as an English teacher myself I can completely relate to it. All teachers who read this will recognise the various stereoptyped 'characters' McCourt talks about in the classroom, as well as his methods of overcoming the most difficult audience in the world; teenagers. The anecdotes and colloquial tone make it easy to follow and fairly quick to read. It is almost like having a conversation with the writer, rather than sitting down and reading a book. I particularly enjoy the way McCourt highlights his own faults and vulnerabilities, openly confessing his mistakes as both a teacher and a human being.

Highly recommended.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars not quite a trilogy..., 18 Oct 2006
By Ms. K. J. Kakanskas "kirstysayshi" (northumberland, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Teacher Man (Paperback)
an excellent book, a great insight into the teaching profession, and New York in the time McCourt was working, but if you expect the third part in the angela's ashes and 'tis trilogy, then it isn't quite this, it's less autobiographical, and more a collection of anecdotes and happenings, with some overlap from 'tis.

nevertheless, excellently written, and very warm... definitely worth a read if you loved angela's ashes and 'tis. if you haven't read these, definitely read them first though.
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19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Teacher woman, 28 Dec 2005
I'd like to express my opinion on "Teacher man" as a reader of all the previous McCourt's novels and as teacher woman in a vocational/technical high school. Frank Mc Court has given voice to the thousands of undervalued, underpaid teachers all over the world, teachers who struggle to get their students involved in the process of learning, adolescents who carry their problems at school and we have to listen to them, try to help them.... McCourt is superb when he says that after five classes a day, a hundred and more students to care of...you go home but your head is full of the clamour of the classroom. Those who have been teachers can understand the deeper meaning of such words. In the same way correcting students' tests during the weekend ignoring husbands, sons because you have a duty to your students, you have a duty to perform, students want to have back their tests marked within a week. Your head is full of 125 students, girls, boys...you still thinking about the chemistry working in classroom B and not in classroom C although you are the same person, you speak the same language, wear the same clothes. That's what I've liked best in "Teacher man": McCourt is one of us, he's real, he's done his job with passion as it has to be done.As McCourt had no time for reading during his school days I've had to wait for my Christmas holidays to be able to read his book. Frank McCourt is a winner and with his writing he'll inspire thousands of people to better themselves, to find a place in the world because he made it in New York but any other place in the world would be perfect to achieve what we want. Dreams may come true with Frank McCourt.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Tis great
I have just read, Teacher Man and loved it. I read, Angela's Ashes many years ago and found it, like many other people, harrowing. Obviously one of the first misery novels! Read more
Published 2 months ago by Delores

5.0 out of 5 stars The Great Liberating Teacher
Out of the book's admirably ironic mix of reminiscences of his Irish past, his personal life (with a disastrous therapy) and his teaching job (beginning with `clarity first'... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Luc REYNAERT

4.0 out of 5 stars Read Angela's Ashes first!
Having read Angela's Ashes immediately following the death of Frank McCourt, I wanted more - and moved onto 'tis and Teacher Man. Read more
Published 5 months ago by H. Wilberforce

3.0 out of 5 stars A bit dull.
Really enjoyed 'Angela's Ashes', and 'Tis', but this was quite dull compared to those. Frank McCourt can tell a good story, but this felt a bit rushed. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Jenny

5.0 out of 5 stars Almost As Good As "Angela's Ashes"
McCourties of the world rejoice! You have nothing to lose but your tears of woe anticipating when he'd return with his next book; the foremost memoirist of our time is back. Read more
Published 18 months ago by John Kwok

4.0 out of 5 stars Every young teacher should read this book...
Every young teacher should read this book... and be reassured by the fact that every new tacher is doomed to go through certain experiences, no matter when or where! Read more
Published 19 months ago by Francesconi Alessandra

5.0 out of 5 stars Who would be a teacher?
Anyone who wants to be a school teacher, is a school teacher, was a school teacher, is at school or went to school should read this book. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Eclectic Reader

5.0 out of 5 stars "Listen. Are you listening? You're not listening"
A smile. A reminiscence of the good old school days. How many times did our teachers address us with that remark? Read more
Published on 11 Sep 2007 by I LOVE BOOKS

4.0 out of 5 stars Life after Retirement
In this book Frank McCourt describes his life as a teacher - both in high schools and as a college professor in New York city and shows how after his retirement at the age of 66,... Read more
Published on 20 Mar 2007 by Paula C. Aird

3.0 out of 5 stars Insightful and amusing, but might work better as short stories?
Frank McCourt's final volume of memoirs is as funny and evocative as his previous two. While a comfortable-ish life in New York can never tug on the heart strings as much as the... Read more
Published on 10 Nov 2006 by AndyL

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