The Modest Achievements Of Meddleton High - Couverture souple

Buchta, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0692860231 ISBN 13 : 9780692860236

Editeur : The Modest Achievements of Meddleton High, 2017

Synopsis

Meddleton High School is suffering. Punished for failing to produce geniuses according to the draconian Unlock America's Genius Act and underfunded to the point where its teachers pay classroom electric bills and must seek business sponsors, the campus becomes ground zero for a battle between the dark forces of politicians big and small and those people like veteran English teacher Pete Webster, who still believe in the power of public education. As if a mysterious mutant flu bug that decimates the Meddleton High staff isn't enough, Pete unwittingly sets into motion a campus concealed-carry policy by turning in a bully's threatening note and is forced to witness close-up its horrific results. Alerted by the warnings of ravens, and with the ghost of Henry David Thoreau as an ally, Pete stumbles along a tragicomedic path of unlikely events that eventually land him on prime time TV debating the merits of public education with none other than the face of Bureaucratic Evil itself, the United States Secretary of Education.

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À propos de l?auteur

Michael Buchta began his writing career in college on the staff of the underground newspaper, The Bugle American, where he did taped interviews with a number of famous musicians like B.B. King and Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull, in which he transcribed the recordings faithfully except for his stammering questions, which he edited to make himself sound highly erudite. He was also known for dashing out Kerouac-inspired, hyperbolized accounts of his spring trips to Florida. After obtaining a degree in Journalism, Michael immediately put it to work in Anchorage, Alaska for the horribly failed McGovern campaign in ‘72, after which he finally leaned to spell as a beat reporter for a daily newspaper in California and later mastered how to organize and command a staff of two as editor for several small town weeklies. As a young man Michael traveled to South America to research what became an unpublished article on drug smuggling and nearly got arrested. This experience was documented in a novel, also unpublished. Later he traveled to Montreal, Canada, to research yet another unpublished article on semi-organized crime, again nearly getting arrested and again resulting in another unpublished novel. Not really dedicated to the craft of writing like he wished he could be, Michael took a hiatus a number of times along the way, most notably when he spent two years playing piano in a rock/lounge band that gigged throughout the Western states, where he made no money and watched the band’s repertoire devolve into mostly long blues jams. Following a mid-life crisis, Michael went back to college, earned a Masters in Composition as well as a teaching credential and became a high school English teacher, a job he took a liking to and managed to remain at for twenty-three years. He’s now retired and lives with his wife, Karen, in Oregon, where he enjoys the outdoors of the great Northwest and plays rock classics on the piano for anyone who’ll listen. His latest obsession is fishing for Dungeness Crabs in bays along the Oregon coast with his wife as his willing though much beleaguered first mate.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Modest Achievements of Meddleton High
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0692860231
• ISBN 13: 9780692860236
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 274
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible