Tis: A Memoir
by:
Frank McCourt (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780684864495 (0684864495)
Publish date: September 21st 1999
Publisher: Scribner
Pages no: 608
Edition language: English
Series: Frank McCourt (#2)
Frank McCourt's writing just does nothing for me. I don't think it is bad writing, but for some reason, I have never gotten into any of his books and have really struggled to finish them...I keep reading though due to having some insight into my Irish roots and I do pull that from his books.
Blurbies - 'Tis begins where Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt's Pulitzer Prize winning memoir of his miserable childhood in Ireland and finally his re-immigration to America, left off. ('Tis is also the last word in the earlier book!)The book begins as McCourt lands in Albany, New York, and quickly ma...
Not nearly as grim as the first one, Angela's Ashes, this brings in a love of literature.