Tis: A Memoir -- Frank McCourt

<b>A #1 <i>New York Times </i>bestseller and the eagerly anticipated sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning <i>Angela's Ashes</i>, this masterpiece from Frank McCourt tells of his American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur.</b> <p/>Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, <i>Angela's Ashes, </i> has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself is the source of salvation, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Rarely has a book so swiftly found its place on the literary landscape. <p/>And now we have <i>'Tis, </i> the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. Frank lands in New York at age nineteen, in the company of a priest he meets on the boat. He gets a job at the Biltmore Hotel, where he immediately encounters the vivid hierarchies of this "classless country," and then is drafted into the army and is sent to Germany to train dogs and type reports. It is Frank's incomparable voice--his uncanny humor and his astonishing ear for dialogue--that renders these experiences spellbinding. <p/>When Frank returns to America in 1953, he works on the docks, always resisting what everyone tells him, that men and women who have dreamed and toiled for years to get to America should "stick to their own kind" once they arri