Lo es (Frank McCourt) (Spanish Edition)

Lo Es : Una Memoria

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He falls in love with and eventually marries a middle-class American-born girl, Alberta Small nicknamed Mike , whom he meets at university. There, he is forced to deal with apathetic, indifferent students. Eventually, he moves on to teaching at the prestigious Stuyvesant High School.

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At Stuyvesant, he revises his teaching style to end his reliance on books and other teaching resources, to become an effective teacher. Nonetheless, Frank finally leaves them, an action he compares to that of his father leaving his family. Frank goes to Ireland to bury his father and scatter his mother's ashes.

The book ends after Frank and his brothers scatter Angela's ashes over the graves of her family. Frank McCourt has remarked in several interviews perhaps joking that he originally intended for each book to have the other's title.

Frank McCourt followed this book with another memoir, Teacher Man. The narrator and author of the book and an immigrant from Ireland, he has a deep love for literature and eventually goes on to marry Alberta after attending NYU.

He taught as a school teacher for the latter part of his life, despite many offers to work for higher pay in the auto industry and loading docks. Also known as "Mike" during her college years, she and Frank meet in college during one of their classes together. Although she had trouble dealing with Frank's frequent drinking problem, they push through together and eventually get married. A roommate of Frank's before he left for high school, Tom eventually leaves for Detroit to work in an auto factory, and urges Frank to join him.

Frank declines, citing his desire to go to college as reason to stay. Named after Frank's sister, Margaret is presented to him with black marks on her feet which Frank mistakenly assumes is a birthmark.

This ruins his imagining of his daughter running shoeless on the beach. Frank's brother Malachy speaks to Frank over the telephone and calls him 'an ass' - explaining that the hospital likely took footprints instead of fingerprints. The title of the book comes from the last sentence of the previous memoir, "Tis", an answer to a rhetorical question.

The memoir has been criticized because it ignores McCourt's marriage to psychotherapist Cheryl Floyd. For certain there are always someone yelling out "don't whine" and "this guy is just another crybaby", but to me, it does more good than harm to cry when there's something real to cry about.

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This late bloomer deserves his wild success. Major topics include education, history, sex, relationship with parents; a diverse spectrum of crazy lunatics can also be found. All in all, it's a fine book with tons of jokes and wits -- "Think for yourself" is the book's central message.

It's not a crime after all.

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Good but "Angela's Ashes" set the bar too high. The book is good but don't expect to love it as much as the first book. Average vote of 3. Aggiungi ad una collezione Dillo ad un amico. The Spanish edition of the 1 New York Times bestseller, TIS is the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant with rotten teeth, infected eyes, and no formal education to brilliant raconteur and schoolteacher. Saved first by a str The Spanish edition of the 1 New York Times bestseller, TIS is the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant with rotten teeth, infected eyes, and no formal education to brilliant raconteur and schoolteacher.

Saved first by a straying priest, then by the Democratic party, then by the United States Army, then by New York University-- which admitted him on a trial basis, though he had no high school diploma-- Frank had the same vulnerable but invincible spirit at nineteen that he had at eight, and still has today.

Yet again, it is through the power of storytelling that Frank finds a life for himself. TIS blesses readers with another chapter of McCourt's story, but as it closes, they will want still more.

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