Here at last is Frank McCourt's critically acclaimed and bestselling book about how his thirty-year teaching career shaped his second act as a writer. This is also an earnest tribute to teachers everywhere. With heartbreaking honesty, McCourt records the trials, triumphs and surprises of teaching in a public high school five days a week, five periods a day, working to gain the attention and respect of unruly, hormonally charged or indifferent adolescents.
