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Author: Frank McCourt
First Published: 1999
Type of Work: Memoir
Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir
Subjects: 1950’s, Teaching or teachers, 1960’s, 1970’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, New York City, 1980’s, Poverty or poor people, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Immigration or emigration, Landlords or tenants, Catholics or Catholic Church, Ireland or Irish people, Korean War
Locales: New York, NY, Ireland

’Tis begins where Angela's Ashes ends, with the arrival of McCourt in New York in September, 1949. He knew almost no one other than a pedophile priest who had befriended him on the ship, and who arranged a job for McCourt through his contacts with the local Democratic Party, sweeping and mopping at the Biltmore Hotel. McCourt felt isolated and alienated in the land of his birth. The upper-class college students who frequented the Biltmore stood in contrast to his own lack of education, and, compounded by his continuing eye problems, his Irish brogue, and general...

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