填空题 This is a third memoir from the author Frank McCourt who has 31 international reputation with his previous two bestsellers Angela"s Ashes and Tis.
Frank McCourt arrived in New York as a young, impoverished and 32 Irish boy. He didn"t know what he wanted except to stop being hungry and to better himself.
On the subway, he watched students carrying books. He saw how they read and 33 and wrote things in the margin and he liked the look of this very much. He joined the New York Public Library and every night when he came back from his hotel work he would 34 up reading the great novels.
Building his confidence and his determination, he talked his way into NYU and gained a literature 35 , and so began a teaching career that was to last 30 years, working in New York high school. Frank estimates that he 36 taught 12,000 children during this time and it is on this relationship between teacher and student that he reflects in Teacher Man, the third in his series of 37
The New York high school is a restless, noisy and unpredictable place and Frank believes that it was his 38 to control and persuade these thousands of children into learning and achieving something for themselves that turned him into a writer.
He, 39 sharing his own life with these kids, learnt the power of narrative storytelling, and out of the invaluable experience of holding 12,000 people"s attention came Angela"s Ashes. Frank McCourt was a 40 in such schools, long before he became the figure he is now. He would receive letters from former students telling him how much his teaching influenced and inspired them, and now in Teacher Man, he will share his reminiscences of those 30 years.
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