Teacher Man: A Memoir Audiobook (Free)

Winner of the 2007 Audie Award for Biography/Memoir and Finalist for Narration by the writer

From your Pulitzer Prize-winning, mega-bestselling author who wore his celebrity with extraordinary grace comes a magnificently appealing book about teaching and about how exactly one great storyteller found his voice.

Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at the age of sixty-six, he burst onto the literary picture with Angela’s Ashes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir of his childhood in Limerick, Ireland..Read More about Teacher Man: A Memoir Then came ‘Tis, his glorious accounts of his early years in New York.

Now, here at last is usually McCourt’s long-awaited publication about how his thirty-year teaching career formed his second act as a writer. Teacher Man can be an urgent tribute to teachers everywhere. In vibrant and spirited prose offering his irreverent wit and compelling honesty, McCourt records the studies, triumphs and surprises he faced in the class. Teacher Man displays McCourt developing his unparalleled ability to inform a great tale as, five times weekly, five periods per day, he worked well to gain the interest and respect of unruly, hormonally charged or indifferent adolescents.

For McCourt, storytelling itself may be the way to obtain salvation, and in Teacher Man the trip to redemption — and literary fame — can be an exhilarating adventure.