"I wanted to read Teacher Man because I'd read the two previous novels by - or memoirs - by Frank McCourt, 'Tis and Angela's Ashes, and I liked both of them immensely. Frank McCourt makes struggle a universal concept so that everyone can relate to it.
The book Teacher Man is Frank McCourt's journey throughout the public school, private school, and vocational school system of New York City. His book is really about his journey towards becoming comfortable with his own style of teaching and acknowledging the fact that it might not be what everyone else is doing, but it's good.
I would certainly recommend it to anyone who was raised Catholic. It's just very much book that you will recognize a lot of aspects of if you went to a Catholic school. You will know a lot of the feelings that he is able to so eloquently describe. I'd recommend it to anyone. It's just so well written, and it's just so universal in its concepts about struggle and redemption; and it's just a really beautiful piece of work. I would give Teacher Man five out of five stars because it is a memoir that like no other that I've read in terms of just brutal honesty and the ability to characterize one's -"
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