'Tis: A Memoir | Frank McCourt

'Tis: A Memoir | Frank McCourt | Very honest

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'Tis: A Memoir

	'Tis: A Memoir Frank McCourt Scribner, 2000 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 591 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Love <3

I love this book. While Angela's Ashes was somewhat depressing but 'Tis is hilarious and enthralling. Throughout the book all you can think is how much you want to hug him. and you'd like to think you'd be the pretty girl that would give Frank a fair shot. Anything this man writes is pure gold that's for sure.

Very honest

He took us into his world, no holes bared. Anyone who can be that brutely honest has my respect. The good, the bad, the ugly. He shared it all. His honesty allowed us to see what life was really like for him. I am thankful for such truth!

Uplifting Sequel

A great follow-up to Angela's Ashes. Both his brothers have also written books and both are quality work.

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'Tis, A Wonderful Book

If you like Frank McCourt, Teachers, Humans, Flaws, or Memoirs, you'll like this book. Frank McCourt's life is one worth reading about.

A Near Miss for 'Tis

Although this author had a very rough start in life, and to hear him tell it, had very little chance of amounting to anything, he doggedly sunk his teeth into each particular goal that he encountered along the way and held on tight until he could claim ownership of it. As a boy, his family was abandoned by the father (a worthless self-absorbed excuse of a man), so he and his brothers were raised by their mother alone. This resulted in a series of experiences that had to be demeaning to a sensitive, ambitious boy. They lived in poverty and were forced to beg help from an assortment of feckless relatives. In a pattern that was to follow him throughout his life, the author set his sights on being liberated in the land of promise, America.

Once he arrived on that golden shore, he was humiliated, verbally abused, and accused of acts he did not commit, but he somehow took all this in stride and gamely tackled each obstacle, seeing it not as an obstacle at all, but rather a temporary hindrance on his mission to succeed. He was a master at minimizing his losses and maximizing his opportunities, and as the book progressed and the characters of his mother and brothers were revealed, it became evident that each of them exhibited this trait, each in their own way.

Despite his many good qualities, the author seemed to be frozen in his thinking regarding his relationship with his father and mother, his neighbors in Ireland, and his self-image. Although he successfully achieved a metamorphosis in his socioeconomic status, his educational status, and his level of influence, he is ultimately unable to change the way he interacts with those who knew him before, when he was still the poverty-stricken, uneducated, pimply-faced kid in the slums, and worse yet, when he looks in the mirror, that is who he sees. The author's inability to move beyond his past limits his ability to impact others. His writing does not provide any epiphanies, no rush of enlightenment, or satisfaction in seeing his personal fulfillment.

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