Why Shoot the Teacher - Couverture souple

Braithwaite, Max

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 077101631X ISBN 13 : 9780771016318

Editeur : McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 1974

Synopsis

Book by Max Braithwaite

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The book that inspired the classic film, Why Shoot the Teacher tells the story of a young man’s first collision with reality – an ill-paid teaching assignment in an isolated country school, in the prairies, during the Depression. The young man is, of course, Max Braithwaite, and the story he has to tell is riotous, grim, candid, and infinitely entertaining. While it is perhaps Braithwaite’s best-loved book, it is also a vivid evocation of the desolation wrought by the “Dirty Thirties” on the Saskatchewan Prairies, the ordeal of youth among a people bereft of pity and charity, and the human compassion that adds warmth and poignancy to the author’s recollections.

Revue de presse

“Read it...for the sheer pleasure of the story, for the pangs of young discovery, and for the smell and taste and feel of a strange land, which is your land.”
–Farley Mowat

“Vulgar, funny, sad, sweet.”
–Globe and Mail

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McClelland & Stewart Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1974
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 077101631X
• ISBN 13: 9780771016318
• Reliure: Broché
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible