Teacher Man: A Memoir by Frank McCourt

Paperback. Pub Date :2006-09-04
Pages: 288 Language: English Publisher:. HarperCollins UK A third memoir from
the author of the huge international bestsellers Angelas Ashes and Tis In
Teacher Man. Frank McCourt details his illustrious. amusing. and sometimes
rather bumpy long years as an English teacher in the public high schools of
New York City.Frank McCourt arrived in New York as a young. impoverished and
idealistic Irish boy – but one who crucially had an American passport. having
been born in Brooklyn He. didnt know what he wanted except to stop being
hungry and to better himself. On the subway he watched students carrying
books. He saw how they read and underlined and wrote things in the margin and
he liked the look of this very much. He joined the New York Public Library
and every night when he came back from his hotel work he would sit up reading
the great novels.Bui…