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Teacher Man

A Memoir

Teacher Man( )
Author: McCourt, Frank
Series title:Penguin Readers Audio Pack Ser.
ISBN:978-1-4058-5175-6
Publication Date:Apr 2007
Publisher:Pearson Education, Limited
Imprint:Penguin Longman
Book Format:Paperback
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Book Description:

As a young man, Frank McCourt leaves Irelandand moves to New York. He works and studies hard, and soon becomes a teacher in a school where the students have no interest in learning. Many of them are impossible to teach, with terrible problems at home and school. McCourt is faced with students who nobody wants to teach. Some of his students think that he is a crazy, drunk, violent Irishman. A moving memoir written with wit and charm.

Author Biography
McCourt, Frank (Author)
Frank McCourt was born in Brooklyn, New York on August 13, 1930 to Irish immigrant parents. When he was four, his family moved back to Ireland. His father abandoned the family to a life of poverty. He attended school until the age of 14, at which point he was forced to drop out to help support the family. In 1949, he returned to the United States, where he worked odd jobs until being drafted into the U. S. Army during the Korean War.

Using the GI Bill, he received a degree in English and education from New York University. He worked at several high schools throughout New York City including McKee Vocational and Technical High School, Seward Park High School, and Stuyvesant High School. During this time, he would occasionally write articles for newspapers and magazines. He retired from teaching in 1994.

His first memoir, Angela's Ashes, was published in 1996. It won the National Book Critics Circle award in 1996 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1997. His other memoirs included 'Tis and Teacherman. He died on July 19, 2009 at the age of 78.

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