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In Teacher Man Frank turns his attention to the subject that he most often talks about in his lectures---teaching: why it's so important, why it's so undervalued. He describes his own coming of age, as a teacher, a storyteller and, ultimately, a writer. He is alternately humble and mischievous, down-trodden and rebellious. He instinctively identifies with the underdog; his sympathies lie more with students than administrators. It takes him almost fifty years to find his voice in the classroom, but what's clear in the thrilling pages of Teacher Man is that from the beginning he seized and held his students' attention by telling them memorable stories.
《教書匠》是Frank McCourt出版的回憶錄系列中最好的一部。而邁克科特的前兩部個人回憶錄，一部曾獲得普利策文學(xué)獎，另外一部曾被好萊塢搬上銀幕。《教書匠》講述了他在紐約各個區(qū)的職高、社區(qū)大學(xué)、小學(xué)、高中的教書經(jīng)歷。此書曾位居《紐約時報(bào)》排行榜的第一名。
About Author
Frank McCourt was born in 1930 in Brooklyn, New York, to Irish immigrant parents, grew up in Limerick, Ireland, and at the age of nineteen, returned to America. Surviving initially through a string of casual jobs, spending every spare minute reading books from the public library, Frank began a process of self-education and improvement which led, eventually, to a career as a high-school teacher.
Then in his sixties, Frank McCourt sat down and began writing about his past. The tales of his childhood that he had told many times to his classes at school and in the bars of New York soon took shape as the highly acclaimed memoir which is Angela's Ashes(1999). Published initially in America, it went straight into the bestseller lists and then crossed the Atlantic to take the bookshops by storm in his native Ireland, in the rest of Europe, and around the world.
弗蘭克是愛爾蘭旅美作家。紐約出生，愛爾蘭長大，成年后返美國，通過在公立圖書館讀書自學(xué)成材而成為教師，后從事寫作，退休后與兄弟組成雙人秀組合，表演愛爾蘭童年時代的故事。一生共寫了三本書，都是回憶錄。第一本也是成名作--《安琪拉的灰燼》曾獲普利策文學(xué)獎。講述了他童年在愛爾蘭的生活，異常的貧窮和艱辛。第二本是《唉》，講述作者15歲時來到紐約，打工、參軍、讀書并最終成為一個老師。
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