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'Tis: A Memoir
by Frank McCourt

'Tis: A Memoir
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Author: Frank McCourt
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-09-21
ISBN: 0684848783
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Scribner
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Book Review: "'Tis" Disappointing
Summary: 1 Stars

I will always remain grateful to Frank McCourt for sharing his love of Irish culture and world literature and for making me into a fine writer. I fondly recall his humor and love for teaching that was quite evident in his Stuyvesant High School classroom. And I am indebted to him for the writing awards I earned in his classroom and elsewhere at Stuyvesant as well as the praise I have received years later from others for my writing. However, I can not recommend "'Tis." I often found his eloquent prose too tedious to read because it is replete with self pity and lacks the humor I found so endearing in "Angela's Ashes". Only at the very end, in the final chapter of "'Tis", did I discover the luminous poetic prose of "Angela's Ashes". Those who wish to read a compelling memoir on Irish-American life in New York City during the 1950's and 1960's should strongly consider taking a look at Pete Hamill's "A Drinking Life". And those who want to read excellent writing by Stuyvesant High School alumni should consider reading Brian Greene's "The Elegant Universe" and Matt Ruff's "Fool on the Hill". 'Tis a book which only a McCourtie - a diehard, zealous McCourt fan - will find appealing.

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