The Blackboard Jungle - Rilegato

Hunter, Evan

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ISBN 10: 0684866021 ISBN 13: 9780684866024

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster, 1999

Riassunto

With a new introduction by the author, this edition of a 1950s classic follows a teacher on his quest to reach a group of violent, rebellious New York City teenagers.

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L'autore:

Evan Hunter was born in Manhattan, but fled to the Bronx at the age of twelve. He went through elementary and high school in the New York City school system, and the Navy claimed him in 1944. When he returned in 1946, he attended Hunter College, and it was there that he met his wife Anita, whom he married in his senior year.

His first job after graduation obviously gave him much of the background which inspired The Blackboard Jungle. He taught in a vocational high school. Next he answered telephones for the American Automobile Association and from there he graduated to another telephone job, this time calling restaurants and asking them if they wanted any nice fresh Maine lobsters that day.

Next, he answered a blind advertisement for an editor, and went to work for a literary agent. Up to this point his creative urge had been buckshot scattered among the arts. He had tried writing and painting -- he once won a scholarship to the Art Students' League and later attended Cooper Union -- and he played the piano in a jazz band. At the literary agency, he learned about plotting stories, and when his agent-boss started selling them regularly to magazines, and sold a mystery novel and a juvenile science-fiction title as well, he decided that it would be more profitable to stay home and write full time. The Blackboard Jungle is the first major result of this decision.

Evan and Anita Hunter now live on Long Island. They have three children -- Ted and the twins, Mark and Richard.

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• Editore: Simon & Schuster
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0684866021
• ISBN 13: 9780684866024
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 334