– "Teacher Man" er en fryd å høre. Forfatteren leser sin egen historie. Han skriver knakende godt fra sin tretti års lange karriere som lærer på seks ulike high schools i New York. Jeg er selv lærer, og kjenner meg godt igjen i mange av hans opplevelser og refleksjoner. McCourt skriver selvironisk og humoristisk om seg selv, både om hans liv i og utenfor klasserommet, glede og slit. En gang ønsket han å prøve seg i et 'virkelig yrke', men var snart tilbake i klasserommet. Han beskriver det paradoksale med dette yrket; man blir iblant så sliten at man drømmer om en rolig kontorjobb, men samtidig er man for glad i jobben sin til å finne på noe annet. Nå fins det utallige usynlige lærere som kunne ha skrevet noe lignende om sin karriere, i så måte er ikke denne boken særlig spesiell. Men, takk til deg McCourt, som har åpenhjertig delt din historie med oss andre, og satt ord på alle tanker som raser i hodet i møtet med høyst levende unge mennesker. Jeg vil gjerne anbefale denne boken til både lærere og elver. Lærere vil kjenne seg igjen og le, elever vil forstå at lærerne deres er høyst vanlige mennesker!
Teacher Man
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‘McCourt has a compulsion to tell us the story of his life, but he does it so well – modulating beautifully from ventriloquistically exact repro teen-speak to rhapsodic meditations on his midlife crisis – that one couldn’t possibly want him to stop. I wish I could have been in one of his classes.’ Sunday Times
‘This memoir about teaching is unlike any other I have read: relatively mundane events and incidents shine against that backdrop of that pathetic, abused child.’ Francis Gilbert, Sunday Telegraph
‘In this third memoir, McCourt recounts his years as a high-school teacher in New York, where he would stop at nothing to reach his surly charges. Nine times out of 10, his approach was successful and it is exhilarating to see these generations of tough-talking teenagers blossom.’ Observer
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A third memoir from the author of the huge international bestsellers Angela's Ashes and 'Tis. In Teacher Man, Frank McCourt details his illustrious, amusing, and sometimes rather bumpy long years as an English teacher in the public high schools of New York City. Les mer
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Frank McCourt arrived in New York as a young, impoverished and idealistic Irish boy - but one who crucially had an American passport, having been born in Brooklyn. 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 underlined 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 sit up reading the great novels.
Building his confidence and his determination, he talked his way into NYU and gained a literature degree and so began a teaching career that was to last 30 years, working in New York's public high schools. Frank estimates that he probably 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 memoirs.
The New York high school is a restless, noisy and unpredictable place and Frank believes that it was his attempts to control and cajole these thousands of children into learning and achieving something for themselves that turned him into a writer. At least once a day someone would put up their hand and shout 'Mr. McCourt, Mr. McCourt, tell us about Ireland, tell us about how poor you were ...' Through sharing his own life with these kids he 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 legend in such schools as Stuyvesant High School - 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 shares his reminiscences of those 30 years and reveals how they led to his own success with 'Angela's Ashes' and ''Tis'.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- HarperPerennial
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780007173990
- Utgivelsesår
- 2006
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
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‘McCourt has a compulsion to tell us the story of his life, but he does it so well – modulating beautifully from ventriloquistically exact repro teen-speak to rhapsodic meditations on his midlife crisis – that one couldn’t possibly want him to stop. I wish I could have been in one of his classes.’ Sunday Times
‘This memoir about teaching is unlike any other I have read: relatively mundane events and incidents shine against that backdrop of that pathetic, abused child.’ Francis Gilbert, Sunday Telegraph
‘In this third memoir, McCourt recounts his years as a high-school teacher in New York, where he would stop at nothing to reach his surly charges. Nine times out of 10, his approach was successful and it is exhilarating to see these generations of tough-talking teenagers blossom.’ Observer
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