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Teacher Man (Paperback)
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Teacher Man (Paperback)
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List price R279
Loot Price R250
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You Save R29 (10%)
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A third memoir from the author of the huge international
bestsellers Angela's 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 didn't 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. Building his confidence and his determination, he
talked his way into NYU and gained a literature degree and so began
a teaching career that was to last 30 years, working in New York's
public high schools. Frank estimates that he probably taught 12,000
children during this time and it is on this relationship between
teacher and student that he reflects in 'Teacher Man', the third in
his series of memoirs. The New York high school is a restless,
noisy and unpredictable place and Frank believes that it was his
attempts to control and cajole these thousands of children into
learning and achieving something for themselves that turned him
into a writer. At least once a day someone would put up their hand
and shout 'Mr. McCourt, Mr. McCourt, tell us about Ireland, tell us
about how poor you were ...' Through sharing his own life with
these kids he learnt the power of narrative storytelling, and out
of the invaluable experience of holding 12,000 people's attention
came 'Angela's Ashes'. Frank McCourt was a legend in such schools
as Stuyvesant High School - long before he became the figure he is
now he would receive letters from former students telling him how
much his teaching influenced and inspired them - and now in
'Teacher Man' he shares his reminiscences of those 30 years and
reveals how they led to his own success with 'Angela's Ashes' and
''Tis'.
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