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Paperback. Pub Date :2006-09-04 288 English 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...

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9780007173990
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ISBN13: 9780007173990
Fourth Estate, 2006

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