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'Tis
Memoir
This article is about book by Frank McCourt. For other uses, see TIS.
'Tis is a memoir written by Frank McCourt of his time learning how to live in New York City.
Published in 1999, it begins where McCourt ended Angela's Ashes, his Pulitzer Prize winning memoir of his impoverished childhood in Ireland and his return to America.[1][2]
Synopsis
The book begins as McCourt lands upriver from New York City, and quickly makes his way to New York City with an Irish-American priest on the ship.
Friendless and clueless about American customs, he struggles to integrate himself into American blue-collar society, working at laboring jobs while spending his free time reading books. The New York City public library is a wonder to him, with its welcoming ways.
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He spends time there and checks out books from the start.
He is drafted into the US Army because of the Korean War; he is sent to Europe, and rises to the rank of corporal. During his time