Tis: A Memoir

336 Pages·1999·1.5 MB·English

by  Frank McCourt

Frank McCourt
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This book is dedicated to
my daughter, Maggie, for her warm, searching heart,
and to
my wife, Ellen, for joining her side to mine.
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Acknowledgments
Friends and family members have smiled and bestowed on me various
graces: Nan Graham, Susan Moldow and Pat Eisemann at Scribner; Sarah
Mosher, formerly at Scribner; Molly Friedrich, Aaron Priest, Paul Cirone and
Lucy Childs of the Aaron Priest Literary Agency; the late Tommy Butler, Mike
Reardon and Nick Browne, high priests of the long bar at the Lion’s Head; Paul
Schiffman, poet and mariner, who served at that same bar but rocked with the
sea; Sheila McKenna, Dennis Duggan, Dennis Smith, Mary Breasted Smyth and
Ted Smyth, Jack Deacy, Pete Hamill, Bill Flanagan, Marcia Rock, Peter Quinn,
Brian Brown, Terry Moran, Isaiah Sheffer, Pat Mulligan, Brian Kelly, Mary
Tierney, Gene Secunda, the late Paddy Clancy, the late Kevin Sullivan, friends
all from the Lion’s Head and the First Friday Club; my brothers, of course,
Alphonsus, Michael, Malachy, and their wives Lynn, Joan, Diana; Robert and
Cathy Frey, parents of Ellen.
My thanks, my love.