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Author: Frank McCourt
First Published: 1999
Type of Work: Memoirs
Time of Work: The 1950’s to the 1980’s
Setting: New York City and Ireland
Principal Characters: Frank McCourt, Angela McCourt, Alberta McCourt, Malachy, Michael, Alfie, Maggie McCourt, Emer
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

In ’Tis, Frank McCourt’s sequel to his immensely popular candid memoir Angela’s Ashes (1996), young McCourt has finally made it back to the United States. As the previous book stated, the author was born in post-Depression Brooklyn, New York, and brought by his bankrupt Irish parents to Limerick, Ireland, where things go from bad to worse in this gray city by the disease-ridden Shannon River. McCourt spends his younger years in abject poverty, enduring starvation, disease, his drunken father’s abandonment, the malnutrition deaths of younger siblings, his mother’s...

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