| International Standard Book Number |
9781419790980 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1419790986 (hardcover)
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| Personal Name |
McCourt, Frank, author.
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| Title Statement |
Sez I to myself : the collected essays of Frank & Malachy McCourt / edited by Tom & Jonah Allon ; foreword by Colum McCann.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York Abrams Press, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
xxii, 312 pages ; 22 cm.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Foreword -- The News that stays news -- Introduction -- 'I've always wanted to be a columnist' -- Editor's note -- The writing life -- McSorley's and the rest -- The religious life -- New York City and 9/11 -- The classroom -- The Irish life and St. Patrick's Day -- Family -- Bits and pieces -- Acknowledgments.
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| Summary, Etc. |
In 1996, a retired New York City high school English teacher published a memoir that took the publishing world by storm. Angela's Ashes, the story of Frank McCourt's childhood in Ireland, was a bold account of poverty and family tragedy, suffused with humor and compassion. It went on to sell over ten million copies and won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award. Frank McCourt was suddenly an internationally celebrated memoirist, a writer who had invigorated the genre. But most readers didn't know that Angela's Ashes wasn't Frank's first published writing. For years, he and his actor brother Malachy contributed a column to a neighborhood newspaper called The West Side Spirit. Malachy, himself a bestselling writer, also contributed to Our Town, Irish America, and The Southampton Review. And Frank went on to write for prominent publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Esquire, Life, and Rolling Stone. Sez I to Myself collects the best of those essays and works of journalism. Here the brothers McCourt tackle parades and pubs, classrooms and churches, the immigrant experience, loss, 9/11, the writing life, and more. This is a charming, tender, and insightful collection, a welcome new book from two masterful and much-loved writers.--Publisher marketing
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| Subject-Personal Name |
McCourt, Frank.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
McCourt, Malachy, 1931-2024.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Authors, Irish.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Essays.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
McCann, Colum, 1965- writer of foreword.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
McCourt, Malachy, 1931-2024, author.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Allon, Tom, editor.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Allon, Jonah, editor.
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