This is the story of a family and their outrageous attempts to hide the fact that the patriarch is an alcoholic. Though the issue of alcoholism is addressed seriously and sympathetically, the book is also filled with humor about the father's shenanigans and the family's cover-ups.
This is the story of a family and their outrageous attempts to hide the fact that the patriarch is an alcoholic. Though the issue of alcoholism is add...
This book is one man's view of what it means to age in this country and to seek meaning in that process by looking at both the joy and the pain of growing old. There is practical advice for the elderly, there are vignettes of humor and wisdom as well as a prevailing respect and affection for those who are entering or who have been in their golden years.
This book is one man's view of what it means to age in this country and to seek meaning in that process by looking at both the joy and the pain of gro...
Alternately funny and touching, COME SEPTEMBER, conveys the story of every high school teacher's struggle to enlighten both himself and his pupils, encountering along the way, battles with colleagues, administrators, and parents through a parade of characters that include a freshman boy for whom the faculty code name is "Spawn of Satan," to a senior girl whose water breaks during a pop-quiz over THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS. Through social change and the relentless march of technology, the human element remains constant in the book's personal, entertaining, and sympathetic portraits of faculty,...
Alternately funny and touching, COME SEPTEMBER, conveys the story of every high school teacher's struggle to enlighten both himself and his pupils, en...
