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Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by listeners everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself is the foundation of salvation, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Rarely has a book so swiftly found its place on the literary landscape.
And today we have 'Tis, the storyline of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. Frank lands in NY at nineteen, in the company of a priest he meets on the boat. He gets employment at the Biltmore Hotel, where he immediately encounters the vivid hierarchies of the "classless country," and then is drafted in to the army and it is sent to Germany to teach dogs and type reports. It is Frank's incomparable voice -- his uncanny humor and his astonishing ear for dialogue -- that renders these experience spellbinding.
When Frank returns to America in 1953, he works on the docks, always resisting what everyone tells him, that women and men who have dreamed and toiled for a long time to get to America should "adhere to their own kind" once they arrive. Somehow, Frank knows that he should be getting an education, and though he left school at fourteen, he talks his way into NY University. There, he falls in love with the quintessential Yankee, long-legged and blond, and tries to live his dream. Nonetheless it is not until he starts to instruct -- and to write -- that Frank finds his place in the world. Exactly the same vulnerable but invincible spirit that captured the hearts of listeners in Angela's Ashes comes old.
Frank McCourt's 'Tis is one of the most eagerly-awaited audiobooks of your time, and it is a masterpiece.
