Sandra (mycatscanread) - reviewed on 4/27/2008 + 174 more book reviews

I tend to like whatever Frank McCourt writes. This memoir picks up when young Frank comes to New York, eventually goes off to war, and then finds his way through working on the docks to New York University, to falling in love and finally to the the one job he knows will be what the world holds for him. That one will be teaching. Later on he will add writing to that dream. Frank McCourt writes with a clarity, candidness and humor that I've seldom found in other memoirs of this type. He's a favorite of mine.

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