Tis

出版者:Simon & Schuster

作者:Frank McCourt

页数:480

出版时间:2000-6

价格:81.00元

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780743200981

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Book Description

Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit, and its profound humanity. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. And now we have 'Tis, the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. The same vulnerable but invincible spirit that captured the hearts of readers in Angela's Ashes comes of age. Frank McCourt's 'Tis is one of the most eagerly awaited books of our time, and it is a masterpiece.

Amazon.com

The sequel to Frank McCourt's memoir of his Irish Catholic boyhood, Angela's Ashes, picks up the story in October 1949, upon his arrival in America. Though he was born in New York, the family had returned to Ireland due to poor prospects in the United States. Now back on American soil, this awkward 19-year-old, with his "pimply face, sore eyes, and bad teeth," has little in common with the healthy, self-assured college students he sees on the subway and dreams of joining in the classroom. Initially, his American experience is as harrowing as his impoverished youth in Ireland, including two of the grimmest Christmases ever described in literature. McCourt views the U.S. through the same sharp eye and with the same dark humor that distinguished his first memoir: race prejudice, casual cruelty, and dead-end jobs weigh on his spirits as he searches for a way out. A glimpse of hope comes from the army, where he acquires some white-collar skills, and from New York University, which admits him without a high school diploma. But the journey toward his position teaching creative writing at Stuyvesant High School is neither quick nor easy. Fortunately, McCourt's openness to every variety of human emotion and longing remains exceptional; even the most damaged, difficult people he encounters are richly rendered individuals with whom the reader can't help but feel uncomfortable kinship. The magical prose, with its singing Irish cadences, brings grandeur and beauty to the most sorrowful events, including the final scene, set in a Limerick graveyard.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　--Wendy Smith

Amazon.com Audiobook Review

'Tis a blessing that the author narrates his own work. McCourt follows up his Audie Award-winning performance in Angela's Ashes with another brilliant reading as he chronicles his return to post-World War II New York. Like all good storytellers, McCourt has good stories to tell; 'Tis pulses with grim adversity and quiet triumphs--character-shaping moments that gain the listener's empathy. What makes McCourt a great storyteller is his ability to give these moments just the right amount of humor and perspective. His lyrical tones are wise but not weary; he's survived life's challenges to tell his tale. And while it may be trite to credit McCourt's verbal skills to his Irish heritage, these war stories were undoubtedly polished amongst friends in the pubs. 'Tis is Grammy material, and a perfect example of how an author's voice can enhance the written word. (Running time: 6 hours, 4 cassettes)

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　--Rob McDonald

From Publishers Weekly

The appeal of McCourt as a reader of his own memoirs (Angela's Ashes flourished commercially on audio, in both abridged and unabridged formats) lies in his ability to express a sustained sense of wonder at the world around him. Also, his brogue is classic, an Irish species unto itself. Here he takes up where he left off in his last book, arriving in America. He is first guided by an Irish bartender who tells him to go to the New York Public Library and read Samuel Johnson. Thus assimilated, he becomes a supply clerk for the army, stationed in postwar Germany, then a warehouse laborer living in a rooming house, before earning a college degree at NYU and settling down as a teacher at a rowdy vocational high school in Staten Island. Along the way come romance and immigrant's-eye life observations aplenty, and a growing sense of knowingness develops even as McCourt's hopes are dashed against disillusions. Simultaneous release with the Scribner hardcover. Also available unabridged and on CD. (Sept.)

From Library Journal

'Tis, the sequel to Angela's Ashes, furthers the story of McCourt, beginning with his arrival in America in 1949 at the age of 19. Continuing the tough life he had in Ireland, he also finds it difficult to make a living in New York. His first job is as a busboy at the Biltmore Hotel, where he admires and envies the young folks he serves, with their college educations and comfortable lives. After floating from one dead-end job to another, he joins the army during the Korean War, where he learns to type--a skill that helps him when he returns to civilian life. McCourt narrates his story with the same biting awareness and lyrical turn of phrase that are the hallmarks of his previous book. Despite a sluggish start and an initial tendency toward whininess, McCourt captures once again the drudgery, cruelty, and hardships poor people face; his insight into the human soul is remarkable. A masterful storyteller, McCourt has an Irish brogue that makes this an enchanting listening experience. Highly recommended for all libraries.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　-Gloria Maxwell, Penn Valley Community Coll., Kansas City, MO

From Booklist

The second installment in McCourt's fluent and bewitchingly candid memoir will be eagerly embraced by a reading public madly in love with the first, the award-winning and best-selling Angela's Ashes (1996). Here McCourt, still simultaneously voluble and precise, chronicles his return to New York, the city of his birth. A high-school dropout with a thick brogue, terrible teeth and skin, and red and infected eyes, he is easy pickings for a priest who helps him get settled, then attempts to molest him. This distressing introduction to the perversity of life in America kicks off an almost unbelievable series of humiliations and hardships as McCourt works soul-crushingly menial jobs for pittance and is confronted both with vicious anti-Irish prejudice and tedious Irish pride--nearly everyone he meets recounts their Irish genealogy and tells him to stick to his own kind. McCourt stubbornly dreams of becoming a teacher and writer but often retreats from the demands of college and work into the comforting haze of alcohol, the bane of his family. Finally, after a stint in the army and years of being mocked for his bookish ways, he succeeds in becoming a teacher, and his riveting accounts of his crazy classroom experiences in a Staten Island vocational high school at the height of McCarthyism are not to be missed. His family is present, too, of course. His mother, Angela, remains depressed even under her sons' solicitous care. His father is impossible right up to the day he dies, and McCourt's brothers, Malachy (who has also written a memoir) and Mike, live "bright carefree" lives, while he does everything the hard way, the only way he knows how, and, frankly, the only approach to life he fully respects.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Donna Seaman

From AudioFile

Leaving Limerick, "the city of gray miseries," behind, Frank McCourt picks up his family story, started in ANGELA'S ASHES , on board the boat to America in 1949. McCourt is a consummate storyteller, interweaving his wry sense of absurdity to leaven the misfortunes and unhappiness that plague the McCourt family. America, the promised land, is fraught with trials for the newly arrived immigrant. McCourt's direct writing style and engaging delivery make this a treat for listeners. Punctuated by soulful fiddle tunes, the abridgment is better developed in McCourt's early years in New York, moving quickly through the last few years before the McCourt sons actually spread Angela's ashes in the Limerick graveyard in 1985. Frank McCourt said in an interview after recording 'TIS that he never anticipated a sequel to ANGELA'S ASHES, nor does he feel that one needs to read, or listen to, the earlier book. This is modesty, perhaps, because 'TIS is an American immigrant's story without the dream that is the brilliant focus and redemption of ANGELA'S ASHES. McCourt seems fully absorbed in the parts of 'TIS that touch on earlier years and have the luminous humanity that distinguish the earlier book. ANGELA is available on audio, in both unabridged and abridged formats, and having McCourt read it to you is an ultimate treat. An interesting production note on this recording--the abridgment was edited from the full-length text. McCourt worked in the Simon & Schuster studios with producer/director Karen Frillman to record the entire work. Mindful of the transitions needed to produce the edited version, Frillman was able to suggest and adjust the segues needed to keep the abridgment smooth and fluid. R.F.W.

From Kirkus Reviews

While not as tightly structured as his Pulitzer Prizewinning Angela's Ashes (1996), the irrepressible McCourt's follow-up memoir has the same driving rhythm, charm, and infectious humor that so captivated readers of the earlier installment. The story picks up in 1949 as McCourt, aged 19, sails to America to seek his fortune. Befriended by a priest who helps him settle in New York City, he's shocked when the man makes a drunken pass at him. His life in New York becomes one of seedy boarding houses, menial labor on the docks and warehouses, and, always, heavy drinking, often with his brothers Malachy and Michael. Conditionally admitted to New York University (he had no high school diploma), he's thrilled to show off his textbooks on the subway but bored with the class work. He'd rather read Sean O'Casey, ``the first Irish writer I ever read who writes about rags, dirt, hunger, babies dying. . . . '' He falls in love with and eventually marries Alberta ``Mike'' Small, a beautiful Episcopalian from New England. It's a marriage that will ``become a sustained squabble.'' His early years as a high school teacher, first at a vocational school on Staten Island, later at the prestigious Stuyvesant High School, are humorously and revealingly retold. His first words as a teacher? ``Stop throwing sandwiches.'' McCourt occasionally interrupts his chronological narrative with lengthy, if funny, portraits of characters he's met along the way. Angela, who has moved back to New York to be near her sons, has become a difficult, sickly woman upon whose death McCourt would write: ``I thought I'd know the grief of the grown man. . . . I didn't know I'd feel like a child cheated.'' Those whose hearts went out to the little boy who suffered so in Limerick might be put off by the hard-drinking, carousing grownup. But there's no denying McCourt's engaging wit. Is it as rewarding as Angela's Ashes? `Tis. (First serial to the New Yorker; Literary Guild main selection; author tour)

Book Dimension

length: (cm)17.1 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)10.4

作者简介

弗兰克·迈考特（Frank McCourt)美国著名作家，教师，普利策文学奖获得者。主要作品有《安琪拉的灰烬》、《就是这儿》、《教书匠》等。

1930年出生于美国纽约，4岁举家迁回爱尔兰故乡，在贫民窟度过苦难的童年。13岁辍学。19岁心怀“美国梦”只身重返纽约，做过酒店勤杂工、码头工人、打字员，当过兵，后来考入大学。毕业后成为一名教师，前后教过12000多名学生，并荣获美国教育界最高荣誉“全美最佳教师”奖，被誉为“老师中的老师”。1987年退休，开始正式写作。1996年，处女作《安琪拉的灰烬》出版，一举获得普利策文学奖、全美书评奖、洛杉矶时报图书奖、美国年度好书奖等重要奖项。系列第二部《就是这儿》、第三部《教书匠》分别于1999年、2005年出版。2009年6月，病逝于纽约。

读后感

but this is the third book of his I read, and although the rhythm is still there and the little dark cloud over his head still touches me, but it's far less powerful a book than "Angela's Ashes". Interesting to read though. And I can't help but wonder, what...  

梦想总是激动人心。更好的生活，更高的社会地位，温暖、舒适、安全、富裕，被人羡慕，获得尊重。这一系列东西，恐怕没有谁不想要。至少对于俗世的你我他来说，我们都希望梦想成真，也都在为梦想成真的那一天而努力。 《安琪拉的灰烬》系列之二《纽约，我来了！》中，小弗兰克...  

梦想总是激动人心。更好的生活，更高的社会地位，温暖、舒适、安全、富裕，被人羡慕，获得尊重。这一系列东西，恐怕没有谁不想要。至少对于俗世的你我他来说，我们都希望梦想成真，也都在为梦想成真的那一天而努力。 《安琪拉的灰烬》系列之二《纽约，我来了！》中，小弗兰克...  

梦想总是激动人心。更好的生活，更高的社会地位，温暖、舒适、安全、富裕，被人羡慕，获得尊重。这一系列东西，恐怕没有谁不想要。至少对于俗世的你我他来说，我们都希望梦想成真，也都在为梦想成真的那一天而努力。 《安琪拉的灰烬》系列之二《纽约，我来了！》中，小弗兰克...  

用户评价

这本《Tis》的书脊在书架上默默伫立了很久，我每次经过都会被它那略显朴素却又带着某种沉静气质的书名吸引。终于，在一个慵懒的午后，我将它从尘封的角落里请了出来。初翻开，一股淡淡的纸张混合着油墨的清香扑鼻而来，这是老书特有的味道，像是在诉说着一个久远的故事。我并非抱着某种特别的期待，只是想在文字的海洋里随波逐流，寻找片刻的宁静。书中的每一个章节都如同一个个精心打磨的珍珠，串联起一段段或细腻、或磅礴的情感。我尤其喜欢作者描绘人物内心世界的手法，那种不动声色的深刻，没有大张旗鼓的铺陈，却能轻易触动人心最柔软的角落。那些细微的观察，那些不经意的细节，都仿佛是作者在用心血浇灌，让笔下的人物鲜活欲滴，仿佛就生活在我身边，与我一同呼吸，一同感受。读到某个情节时，我甚至会不自觉地放慢呼吸，生怕惊扰了书中角色的世界。

《Tis》这本书，就像是一次漫长而奇妙的旅程。我并非抱着明确的目的踏上这段旅程，只是被一种莫名的吸引力驱使着，想要去探索未知的风景。在这本书的世界里，没有惊心动魄的冒险，没有宏大壮阔的史诗，只有对生活细致入微的观察，对人物内心深处的挖掘。作者的文字像是一把锋利的解剖刀，却又带着温柔的触感，精准地剖析着人性的光辉与阴暗。我尤其欣赏作者对于细节的处理，那些微不足道的日常片段，在他笔下却能焕发出别样的生命力，折射出深刻的哲学意味。读这本书，就像是在品味一杯香醇的咖啡，需要慢慢地啜饮，才能体会到那浓郁的醇厚和悠长的回甘。它不会让你瞬间激动，但却会在你的心底留下深深的烙印。

《Tis》这本书，给我的感觉就像是在一个阴郁的天气里，突然走进了某个古老而温暖的宅邸。光线透过布满灰尘的玻璃窗，在空气中投下斑驳的光影，一切都显得那么的沉寂，又那么的充满故事感。我并非是那种追求快节奏、情节跌宕起伏的读者，我更偏爱那些需要静下心来品味的文字。而《Tis》恰恰满足了我这一点。它不像市面上很多畅销书那样，用华丽的辞藻或者惊悚的悬念来吸引眼球。相反，它的语言朴实无华，却处处透着一股不动声色的力量，就像陈年的老酒，越品越有滋味。作者在对环境的描写上，也极其用心，那些静谧的乡村风光，那些充满历史痕迹的建筑，都勾勒出了一个立体而鲜活的世界，让我仿佛置身其中，感受到微风拂过脸颊，听到远处传来的鸟鸣。

初次接触《Tis》，它给我的第一印象是那种不张扬的、内敛的气质。它不像那些一眼就能抓住眼球的书籍，而是需要你主动去靠近，去了解。而一旦你打开了它的门扉，便会发现其中蕴含着一个别样的世界。作者的笔触细腻且富有张力，他善于用平实的语言勾勒出复杂的情感，用琐碎的生活片段串联起深刻的哲理。我非常享受在阅读过程中那种“顿悟”的时刻，当那些看似不经意的描述，突然间意义豁然开朗，你会惊叹于作者的巧思。书中的人物塑造也尤为成功，他们并非完美无瑕的英雄，而是充满了人性的弱点和矛盾，这使得他们更加真实可信，也更容易引起读者的共鸣。我常常在合上书本后，还会久久地回味书中的某些场景和对话，仿佛它们已经渗透进了我的生活。

说实话，我是在朋友的强烈推荐下才拿起《Tis》的。起初，我以为这会是一本读起来有些费力的书，毕竟“Tis”这个名字本身就带着一种古老和疏离感。然而，当我真正沉浸其中时，才发现我的担忧是多余的。作者的叙事方式非常独特，他没有采用传统意义上的线性叙事，而是像一个经验丰富的说书人，将不同的时间线、不同的视角巧妙地编织在一起。这需要读者具备一定的耐心和专注力，但一旦你跟上了作者的节奏，就会发现其中蕴含的精妙之处。那些看似零散的线索，最终会汇聚成一幅宏大的画卷，展现出人性的复杂和命运的无常。尤其是在描绘人物情感的细微之处，作者更是将功力发挥到了极致，那些欲说还休的留白，那些欲盖弥彰的暗示，都比直白的倾诉更能触动人心。

看完了Angela's Ashes，就想读这本，总想晓得他到纽约后的故事，看这本就都明了了

Angela’s Ashes的续篇 又丧又温情的典范 在海边躺椅上看完的一本 依然有很多令人感动的瞬间

看完了Angela's Ashes，就想读这本，总想晓得他到纽约后的故事，看这本就都明了了

Angela’s Ashes的续篇 又丧又温情的典范 在海边躺椅上看完的一本 依然有很多令人感动的瞬间

看完了Angela's Ashes，就想读这本，总想晓得他到纽约后的故事，看这本就都明了了