The Grantee - Couverture souple

Laird, Bob

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1450535909 ISBN 13 : 9781450535908

Editeur : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010

Synopsis

The Grantee is a comic novel with serious concerns. Duncan McAmis is in his third year teaching English at Long Beach City College. The year is 1968, and McAmis is rapidly coming unglued. Just before he self-destructs completely, he receives a Fulbright Grant to teach American literature in Denmark. In Copenhagen, McAmis continues to live precariously but makes two real friends, falls in love, is drawn into the Danish anti-Viet Nam war movement with nearly fatal consequences, and, ultimately, stumbles into his own life.Educational Foundation in Copenhagen, and the love of Inge, a Danish woman he meets. At the same time, however, McAmis is drawn into the anti-Viet Nam war movement in Copenhagen with serious, almost fatal, consequences.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Bob Laird grew up in Oakland. He graduated from UC Santa Barbara and then taught English in community college and high school and worked as a hairdresser before going to work at UC Berkeley where he spent 22 years in admissions and outreach. He served as director of undergraduate admission from 1993 through his retirement in 1999 and is the author of The Case for Affirmative Action in University Admissions, published in 2005 by Bay Tree Publishing. The Grantee is his first novel. He lives in Berkeley with his spouse Karen Rice

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1450535909
• ISBN 13: 9781450535908
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 436
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible