![]() 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. 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. ![]() It is Frank's incomparable voice - his uncanny humor and his astonishing ear for dialogue - that renders these experiences spellbinding. 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. Frank lands in New York at age nineteen, in the company of a priest he meets on the boat. ![]() Rarely has a book so swiftly found its place on the literary landscape.Īnd now we have 'Tis, the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. ![]() ![]() A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself is the source of salvation, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. ![]()
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