Teacher Man

A Memoir

Frank McCourt

• Publisher: Scribner
• Year: 2005
• Print ISBN:
  9780743243780
• eBook ISBN:
  9780743282000
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Education Biographies
• Index: Literature

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning, mega-bestselling author of Angela’s Ashes comes a magnificently appealing memoir about teaching and about how one great storyteller found his voice.

Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at the age of sixty-six, he burst onto the literary scene with Angela's Ashes, the Pulitzer Prize–winning memoir of his childhood in Limerick, Ireland. Then came 'Tis, his glorious account of his early years in New York.

Now, here at last is McCourt's long-awaited book about how his thirty-year teaching career in New York City public high schools 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 compelling honesty, McCourt records the trials, triumphs and surprises he faced in the classroom. Teacher Man shows McCourt developing his unparalleled ability to tell a great story as, five days a week, five periods per day, he worked 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Prologue
• Part I: It’s a Long Road to Pedagogy
• Part II: Donkey on a Thistle
• Part III: Coming Alive in Room 205
• Copyright