Teacher Man: A Memoir

Frank McCourt

Simon and Schuster, Sep 19, 2006 - Biography & Autobiography - 258 pages

Here at last in paperback is Frank McCourt's critically acclaimed and bestselling book about how his thirty-year teaching career shaped his second act as a writer. Teacher Man is also an urgent tribute to teachers everywhere. In bold and spirited prose featuring his irreverent wit and heartbreaking honesty, McCourt records the trials, triumphs and surprises of teaching in public high schools. Teacher Man shows McCourt developing his unparalleled ability to tell a great story as, five days a week, five periods per day, he works to gain the attention and respect of unruly, hormonally charged or indifferent adolescents.

For McCourt, storytelling itself is the source of salvation, and in Teacher Man the journey to redemption--and literary fame--is an exhilarating adventure.

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Review: Teacher Man (Frank McCourt #3)

User Review  - Cleo - Goodreads

This is Frank McCourt's third book about his thirty years teaching in various New York City high schools. He taught English and also Creative Writing. Most of the schools he taught at were vocational ...

Review: Teacher Man (Frank McCourt #3)

User Review  - Joseph - Goodreads

I must first give a context wherein I read this book: I spent the last three years teaching at a private university in the west with kids who, for the most part, were privileged both economically and ...

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 11
• Section 3: 57
• Section 4: 83
• Section 5: 91
• Section 6: 101
• Section 7: 129
• Section 8: 147
• Section 9: 183
• Section 10: 199
• Section 11: 254

About the author

Frank McCourt (1930-2009) was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Irish immigrant parents, grew up in Limerick, Ireland, and returned to America in 1949. For thirty years he taught in New York City high schools. His first book, Angela's Ashes, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the L.A. Times Book Award. In 2006, he won the prestigious Ellis Island Family Heritage Award for Exemplary Service in the Field of the Arts and the United Federation of Teachers John Dewey Award for Excellence in Education.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Teacher Man: A Memoir
• Author: Frank McCourt
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster, 2006
• ISBN: 0743243781, 9780743243780
• Length: 258 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Educators; Biography & Autobiography / Literary; Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs