Frank McCourt's follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize winning Angela's Ashes and his later 'Tis starts as a lyrical tribute to his 30 year career teaching in public high schools in New York and ends as a tribute to teachers everywhere. We follow McCourt's career highs and lows as he details his struggles to hit his stride as a teacher and ultimately an author. As with any good teacher, we have a lesson to learn from McCourt: "Doggedness," he says, is "not as glamorous as ambition or talent or intellect or charm, but still the one thing that got me throught the days and nights." Funny, honest and insightful, we can almost hear his Irish lilt.
Find Teacher Man at the Adrian Public Library.
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Light & entertaining--a fast read
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