About this title: Available at last in paperback is Frank McCourt's critically acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller about how his 30-year teaching career in the public schools of New York City shaped his second act as a writer.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Scribner
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780743243780ISBN:0743243781
Description: Very Good. First printing 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Slight cover wear with minor scuffing to edges and creasing on spine. GoodwillnyBooks is committed to providing each customer with the highest standard of customer service. You may return new items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Scribner
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780743243780ISBN:0743243781
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Previous owners name inscribed inside front. -, Trade PaperBack, Very Good / read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Scribner
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780743243780ISBN:0743243781
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. A former library book with the usual identifiers. -, Trade PaperBack, Very Good / read more
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"They say "those who can't, teach." Francis McCourt proves to be the exception to that cliché. A Pulitzer Prize winner for his first book, Angela's Ashes, McCourt spins the tale of an Irish immigrant whose road to assimilation takes a different path than the usual work on the docks or in the sweat boxes of the northeast. McCourt chooses the teaching profession in Brooklyn, New York. We see him struggling as he encounters the indifference and defiance of teens from the poorer sections of the city. He places us in his classroom as he handles the challenges offered by high school students who are unmotivated. He is a teacher facing thirty kids in five classes a day. What the reader learns is that there are no hard and fast rules for surviving this hostile environment. One has to find one's own way. McCourt succeeds sufficiently enough to be invited to teach English at one of New York City's most prestigious high schools.
You will be entertained by the ways in which McCourt discovers, through trial and error, how to kindle within his students the desire to learn. And near the end of his tale we see him retiring from a long teaching career as a creative writing instructor who never has written a book...until he turned sixty-three. It's a remarkable story."
"Frank McCourt's "Teacher Man" was given to me by a friend at a time when, late in life, I decided I HAD to teach English Literature. I knew I was in for a struggle but I was confident that I loved my subject so much I was positive that I could make my students love it, too. I failed. I was at a school where cheating was common, no one had the desire to learn, teachers were not respected, and there was no discipline. I think the giver of this gift was trying to show me that I was not the only one who had problems with students! Too bad I didn't have the stomach to tough it out.
McCourt is a fine writer with that Irish melancholy that makes one identify with him on many levels.
It is interesting that, of all the movies I showed my classes in an attempt to get them to see that themes are eternal, they loved the screenplay of "Angela's Ashes" the best. This other work by McCourt will break your heart, yet he tucks in enough humor to keep you from killing yourself. His descriptions are without parallel, and the Irish village is a microcosm of the world--his, ours, and anybody's. Due to lots of begging, I showed the movie twice.
Please read this. It's a wonderful book and is way easier to get through than James Joyce. Plus, the reader has no doubt about what he's reading, while dipping into Joyce takes a priest and a seeing eye dog."
"Funny, entertaining, and heartfelt. Wonderful autobiography and told by the author (RIP) on the audiobook.
"Six years later I met Bob on Lower Broadway. It was a January day but he was attired as usual in short pants and Orson Welles jacket. He said, Hi, Mr. McCourt. Great day, isn't it? It's freezing, Bob. Oh, that's OK. He told me he was already working for a farmer in Ohio, but he couldn't go through with the pig thing, that would destroy his parents. I told him that was a good and loving decision. He paused and looked at me. Mr. McCourt, you never liked me, did you? Never liked you, Bob? Are you joking? It was a joy to have you in my class, Jonathan said you drove the gloom from the room. Tell him, McCourt, tell him the truth. Tell him how he brightened your days, how you told your friends about him, what an original he was, how you admired his style, his good humor, his honesty, his courage, how you would have given your soul for a son like him. And tell him how beautiful he was and is in every way, how you loved him then and love him now. Tell him. I did, and he was speechless and I didn't give a tinker's damn what people though on Lower Broadway when they saw us in a long warm embrace, the high school teacher and the large Jewish Future Farmer of America." 239-240"
"Ironically and tragically, I began reading this book on the day, Frank McCourt died - July 19, 2009 - of cancer. This is the third of McCourt's books and like Angela's Ashes and Tis, this is largely autobiographical. While near the end of Teacher Man he does relate some of his more rewarding teaching experiences, most of the book recounts stories from his childhood that he told his classes, and for which he became famous. As such the book does not seem so much about teaching, as it recounts some experiences that MCourt recalls that are remotely and indirectly related to his teaching. I must say there was adisconnect between the prasweorthy tributes to him following his death, and McCourt's self-deprecating, somewhat cynical tone abouat his own teaching. However as a teacher, I did find the last section of the book, where he outlines some of his more innovative teaching techniques, to be interesting. Long before "learner-centered teaching" became vogue, McCourt was doing that by teaching writing by having students write excuse notes from their parents and singing recipes. So while this book is written a bit unevenly, for those who like McCourt, this is an enjoyable read."
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