{"product_id":"9780743552462","title":"Teacher Man: A Memoir","description":"Since the publication of \u003ci\u003eAngela's Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e nearly a decade ago, Frank McCourt has become one of literature's superstars. He is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the American Booksellers Association ABBY Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. More than four million copies of \u003ci\u003eAngela's Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e are now in print; its sequel, \u003ci\u003e'Tis\u003c\/i\u003e, has sold more than two million in America; and the books have been published in more than twenty countries and languages.    \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTeacher Man\u003c\/i\u003e Frank turns his attention to the subject that he most often talks about in his lectures-teaching: why it's so important, why it's so undervalued. He describes his own coming of age-as a teacher, a storyteller, and, ultimately, a writer. He is alternately humble and mischievous, downtrodden and rebellious. He instinctively identifies with the underdog; his  sympathies lie more with students than administrators. It takes him almost fifteen years to find his voice in the classroom, but what's clear in the thrilling pages of \u003ci\u003eTeacher Man\u003c\/i\u003e is that from the beginning he seizes and holds his students' attention by telling them memorable stories. And then it takes him another fifteen years to find his voice on the page.    \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith all the wit, charm, irreverence, and poignancy that made \u003ci\u003eAngela's Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e'Tis\u003c\/i\u003e so universally beloved, Frank McCourt tells his most exhilarating story yet-how he became a writer.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47094162981104,"sku":"9780743552462","price":24.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780743552462_p0.jpg?v=1763635569","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780743552462","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}