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Fish, Stanley
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Fiction
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HarperCollins
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English
β 344 KB
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A Comedy & A Tragedy: A Memoir of Learning How to Read and Write
β Scribed by Culley, Travis Hugh
- Book ID
- 108947663
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 4 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780345506160
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
In this powerful memoir, former bicycle messenger and acclaimed author of The Immortal Class recounts his difficult journey to literacy.
A Comedy & A Tragedy is the story of one young man's effort to teach himself to read. Complex and many-leveled, this book is also a manifesto about the acquisition of intellectual independence. It is a plea to better understand the impact of dysfunctional family dynamics in education, and a passionate indictment of a broken school system that lets so-called problem kids slip through the cracks.
When Travis Hugh Culley moves with his family to Miami in the spring of 1980, the bright six-year-old hopes things will be easier for him. Instead, he is dubbed a "bird brain" by his older brother and classified by his new teachers as a discipline problem. Travis fakes his way through tests and homework assignments, mimicking his fellow students and pretending to know how to read. When his music teacher suggests...
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