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Scribner, 1999-09-21. Hardcover. Very Good. Minimal shelf/reading wear. Pages unmarked. Binding and covers in very good condition. Orphans Treasure Box sells books to raise money for orphans and vulnerable kids.

Scribner, 9/21/1999. Hardcover. Very Good. 000-043: Hardcover with Dustjacket. 367 pages. Book has crease on last two pages, light wear, and a few tiny surface blemishes. Jacket has only light wear around edges. A beautiful, square, tight copy with clean, unmarked pages. Memoir of Frank McCourt's American Journey from Impoverished Immigrant to Brilliant Teacher and Raconteur. 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 First Edition, First Printing 1999. Published by Scribner Books, New York.

Scribner, 1999. Scribner 1999. Hardcover. Very Good. 6x1x9. <p>The sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning <i>Angelas Ashes</i>,<i>Tis</i> is the story of Frank McCourts American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. Frank lands in New York at age nineteen, in the company of a priest he meets on the boat. He gets a job at the Biltmore Hotel, where he immediately encounters the vivid hierarchies of this classless country, and then is drafted into the army and is sent to Germany to train dogs and type reports.</p><br /><br/><p>When Frank returns to America in 1953, he works on the docks, always resisting what everyone tells him, that men and women who have dreamed and toiled for years to get to America should stick to their own kind once they arrive. Somehow, Frank knows that he should be getting an education, and though he left school at fourteen, he talks his way into New York University. There, he falls in love… Read More