- Irish Americans, Irlandeses-americanos, Family, Social life and customs
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood."
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Classical in form, prestige, earnest and meticulous.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- rawmeticulous
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Frank McCourt
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 432
- Publisher
- Distribooks, Plaza & Janés, Harper Collins Promotion
- Editions
- 101
- Language
- Spanish, French, Italian, Russian
- ISBN
- 9780007117215
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“My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born.”
Francis "Frank" McCourt was an Irish-American teacher and writer. He won the Pulitzer Prize (1997) and National Book Critics Circle Award (1996) for his memoir *Angela's Ashes* (1996), which details his childhood as a poor Irish Catholic in Limerick. He is also the author of *'Tis* (1999), which continues the narrative of his life, picking up from the end of the previous book and focusing on life as a new immigrant in America. *Teacher Man* (2005) detailed the challenges of being a young, uncertain teacher who must impart knowledge to his students. In 2002 he was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Western Ontario.
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