Teacher Man. A Memoir

London England: Fourth Estate, 2005. Hardback. First Edition. Very slight shelf wear to top edge of D/J. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of Angela's Ashes and 'Tis. a wonderfully engaging and appealing book about teaching and storytelling, the subjects closes to Frank McCourt's heart. In this book Frank turns his attention to the subject that he most often talks about in his lectures - teaching: why it's so important, why it's so undervalued. He describes his own coming of age - as a teacher, a storytell and, ultimately, a writer. He is alternately humble and mischievous, down-trodden and rebellious. He instinctively indetifies with the underdog; his sympathies lie more with students than administrators. It takes him almost fifteen years to find his voice in the classroom, but what's clear in the thrilling pages of this book is that from the beginning he seized and held his students' attention by telling them memorable stories. With all the wit, charm, irreverence, and poignancy that made Angela's Ashes and 'Tis so universally beloved, Frank McCourt tells his most exhilarating story yet - how he became a writer. 258 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback.