Going Home to Teach - Brossura

Anthony C. Winkler

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1405068833 ISBN 13: 9781405068833

Casa editrice: Macmillan Caribbean, 2006

Riassunto

This autobiographical account of the year Winkler spent at a rural teacher training college flashes back to the Jamaica of the narrator's childhood, recounting incidents and vignettes that shed light on the muddle of competing personalities, doctrines and images of self, currently vying for centre stage in the tumult of Jamaican life. Emerging form the story are the hilariously drawn characters, contrasts between the Jamaican and the American outlook, and the lessons about the perils of superimposing a foreign ideology onto a native culture.

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Recensione:

"In Going Home to Teach Winkler's strength as a writer lies in the vividness of his descriptions, the power of his imagery, and the range of his vocabulary...." --Elaine Reynolds, The Sunday Observer

"I was re-reading Winkler's wonderful book Going Home to Teach the other day for the umpteenth time. It s a sometimes poignant, often hilarious and frequently accusatory account of the acclaimed Jamaican author s experiences in the mid-seventies, when he decided to leave the United States to return to Jamaica to teach at a rural college for would-be teachers..." --Garry Steckles, Caribbean Beat

L'autore:

Anthony C. Winkler was born in Jamaica, and was educated in Jamaica and America. His first novel, The Painted Canoe, was published in Jamaica in 1984. The Lunatic followed in 1987, and Winkler also wrote the screenplay for a highly successful film of this novel. Other works include The Great Yacht Race (1992), Going Home to Teach (1995) and The Duppy (1997). In 1999 his original screenplay The Annihilation of Fish, was filmed in Los Angeles. Starring opposite James Earl Jones with Margot Kidder, Lynn Redgrave won Palm Beach Best Actress for her role as Poinsettia. He resides with his wife, Cathy, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

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• Editore: Macmillan Caribbean
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1405068833
• ISBN 13: 9781405068833
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 328