{"product_id":"tis-unabridged-a-memoir","title":"Tis Unabridged: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eA #1 New York Times bestseller and the eagerly anticipated sequel to the Pulitzer Prizewinning Angelas Ashes  this masterpiece from Frank McCourt tells of his American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur.  Frank McCourts glorious childhood memoir  Angelas Ashes  has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit  its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption  in which storytelling itself is the source of salvation  it won the National Book Critics Circle Award  the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Rarely has a book so swiftly found its place on the literary landscape.  And now we have Tis  the story of Franks American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. Frank lands in New York at age nineteen  in the company of a priest he meets on the boat. He gets a job at the Biltmore Hotel  where he immediately encounters the vivid hierarchies of this classless country  and then is drafted into the army and is sent to Germany to train dogs and type reports. It is Franks incomparable voicehis uncanny humor and his astonishing ear for dialoguethat renders these experiences spellbinding.  When Frank returns to America in 1953  he works on the docks  always resisting what everyone tells him  that men and women who have dreamed and toiled for years to get to America should stick to their own kind once they arrive. Somehow  Frank knows that he should be getting an education  and though he left school at fourteen  he talks his way into New York University. There  he falls in love with the quintessential Yankee  long-legged and blonde  and tries to live his dream. But it is not until he starts to teachand to writethat Frank finds his place in the world. The same vulnerable but invincible spirit that captured the hearts of readers in Angelas Ashes comes of age.  As Malcolm Jones said in his Newsweek review of Angelas Ashes  It is only the best storyteller who can so beguile his readers that he leaves them wanting more when he is done...and McCourt proves himself one of the very best. Frank McCourts Tis is one of the most eagerly awaited books of our time  and it is a masterpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44987580088373,"sku":"ByrdShop_0743551745","price":25.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780743551748.jpg?v=1770948696","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/tis-unabridged-a-memoir","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}