'Tis. A Memoir.

Book Proof. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 383. Pictorial wrappers.

Signed by the Author on a bookplate affixed to the title page.

A 1999 New York Times Notable Book and a #1 New York Times bestseller. "My first day in New York and already people are talking like gangsters from the films I saw in Limerick." The sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angela's Ashes (1996).

Frank McCourt's second volume of the much-acclaimed lyrical memoirs of his Irish-American childhood and boyhood, recounts an extraordinary journey from impoverished immigrant with no formal education to brilliant raconteur and schoolteacher. "A classic modern memoir... stunning." –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times