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Summary: GOOD BOOK
Review: After Angela's Ashes it is hard to come up with a great follow up, but he came pretty close in this one. Honest, open telling of his life in America. A very nice story of someone coming into America and the struggles faced.
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Summary: The Fabulous Memoir
Review: I absolutly loved this book. It had much suspense and Frank McCourt curtainly had something to say about the struggle in his earlier years. I have not yet read another book with so much bad language, though. Sure people do swear much but I am just a teenager and that is the only thing that appauled me, except for the sexual thoughts and doings which take place (something which can be dealt with). Otherwise the book was great. You can tell this man is a language arts teacher beacause this literature is excellant compared to other books and poems of struggle. In fact, I never knew that applying and actually getting a job was so hard.This book need little improvements, and once again is an awsome book for mature readers.
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Summary: Part 2 of Malachy McCourt's Brother's Memoirs
Review: " 'Tis" is the entire last chapter of "Angela's Ashes" and the title of the book that takes up where "Angela's Ashes" left off. Actually, there is some slight overlap, because Frank's arrival back in United States is mentioned in both books; at the end of the first and at the beginning of the second. " 'Tis" recounts Frank's college days at New York University and his career as an English teacher in the public schools of New York City, and, of course, much more.Like its predecessor, this book is a delight to read. Having read either, you will want to read the other and Malachy McCourt's "A Monk Swimming" and "Singing My Him Song." These are four books not to be missed.
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Summary: More uplifting than Angela's Ashes
Review: After reading Angelas Ashes and seeing this at the bookstores, I couldn't resist. Although the latter was great, it was depressing at times, but 'Tis is the other side - the success story. Though not without hardship, Frank McCourt beautifully describes how the Irish kid off the boat made it in America. Great!
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Summary: pretty interesting stuff
Review: I found Tis to be a good account of mr mccourt and the irish in the early years. I found it similar to catcher in the rye in style. I believe there will be more written, as it was ended in 1985. The ambition of the young irishman(mccourt) and his success were interesting. His "keeping it real" with the truths of ginmills,hangovers,lady and family ordeals had a real meaning to those of us who've lived in success and failure. It's a good sequel, but not overwhelming.
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Summary: 'Tisn't as good as Angela's Ashes but -
Review: 'Tis - A Memoir by Frank McCourt Schribner 1999 Frank McCourt's coming of age in America is a wonderful story - full of humor, sadness and integrity. Frank brings with him his Irish roots and while he tries vainly to sink them into American soil, he never really succeeds. He remains as Irish as the day he came and tells his story with wit and verve. In Angela's Ashes the poignancy of poverty and a run-away father told in a child's voice brought me to tears as did his constant struggle to live up to a church whose stern voice incessantly called for repentance. "'Tis" is a different sort of book and while charming did not have the same emotional pull as"Angela's Ashes". A good read and I would recommend it.
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Summary: I Wasn't Expecting Angela's Ashes
Review: ... and therefore I was not disppointed. While the book is missing a lot of the warmth of its prequel, it has some moments, such as Frank returning to Ireland from America the first time and overcome with emotion, weeps at the first sight of the Emerald Isle as his airplane approaches the coast. The hilarious moments are not missing either, such as being mistaken for a homosexual with a lemon meringue pie in the restroom of a movie theatre, mistaking a bathmat for a bath towel, and wondering who washes the Pope's underwear and deciding it must be some blind nuns in the basement of the Vatican. The book had some real dark parts and also, Frank seemed to at times,turn into a perverted, drunken and unfaithful user jerk, which made me not like him as much. Despite this, I found his determination to get a good job and build a career very inspiring. His selflessness with regards to the welfare of his family made him was interesting; he never seemed to forget where he came from. I highly recommend "The McCourts of Limerick" on VHS.
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Summary: Rewiew of 'Tis
Review: 'Tis was humbling. It was hilarious and sad at the same time. It was well written, but a little confusing at times.
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Summary: SIMPLY GLORIOUS
Review: WHEN I READ ANGELA'S ASHES I WAS EAGERLY AWAITING THE AUTOR'S NEXT BOOK, MY WAIT WAS NOT IN VAIN. THIS MEMOIR IS A MASTERPIECE.FRANK McCOURT IS A GREAT WRITER, WHO WANTS THE READERS TO WALK THE PATH OF HIS LIFE WITH HIM, I AM NOT SURE IF EVERYONE WHO READS THE BOOK CAN UNDERSTAND THAT BUT MOST OF THE READERS WILL SURELY WALK WITH HIM.THE MEMOIR IS INTENSE AND CAN BRING TEARS TO YOUR EYES. AT THE SAME TIME CAN MAKE YOU LAUGH THROUGH YOUR TEARS. THE FEELINGS OF A GROWING MAN WHO EXPERIENCES THE PAIN OF ACCEPTING AND BEING CORDIAL TO A FATHER WHOS ABANDONS HIS OWN CHILDREN FOR THE SAKE OF DRINKING IS EXPRESSED BEAUTIFULLY,FOR ANY MAN OR A WOMAN IN SUCH A SITUATION WILL BE CONFUSED. THE BOOK IS LIKE A MIRROR WHICH HELPS YOU REFLECT YOUR OWN DRAWBACKS AND WANT TO CHANGE FOR THE BETTER.THE WRITER HAS THE INTENSITY TO GET INSIDE THE MINDS OF PEOPLE AROUND HIM AND BE THERE FOR PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY NEED HIM.I WISH HE GOES ON WRITING BETTER BOOKS.
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Summary: 'Tis A Fine Read
Review: Luckily for Frank McCourt, life got better after he left the blighted lanes of Limerick at age 19 and headed for New York City. Luckily for fans of Angela's Ashes,his 1997 Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, McCourt's genius for observation survived the trip. Resuming where his No. 1 bestselling remembrance of an Irish boyhood concludes, 'Tis follows McCourt from his first American job-emptying ashtrays at the Biltmore Hotel-through his years on Manhattan's loading docks, his stint in the Army, his days at New York University and his entry into the profession he practiced for 30 years: teaching high school English. Moving from near-starvation in childhood to grown-up literary renown is an astonishing trajectory; McCourt recalls it with wry humility. When his first students, at a vocational high school, declare the book Giants in the Earth irrelevant ("all these Europe people all gloomy on the prairie"), McCourt digs up autobiographical papers by students from years past to engage his class. "Without the crumbling compositions," he writes, "I might have had to teach." As he has proved once again, telling your own story well can do just that.
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