DO YOU LIKE IT HERE?

Language: English

Published by DELL PUBLISHING CO. INC., NEW YORK, NY, 1989

0440204356 / 9780440204350

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(10) + xiv + (1) + 2 - 240 + (1) PAGES. THERE ARE CORNER FOLDS OF THE TOP OF THE FRONT COVER AND THE BOTTOM OF THE REAR COVER. THE PAGES ARE TONED WITH AGE. THE INTERIOR IS TIGHT AND CLEAN. THIS PAPERBACK ANTHOLOGY OF STORIES ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL DAYS CONTAINS SHORT STORIES BY 21 AUTHORS INCLUDING ERNEST HEMINGWAY, PHILIP ROTH - SHIRLEY ANN GRAU - CARSON MCCULLERS, JOHN O'HARA, GORE VIDAL, JAMES T. FARRELL AND OTHERS. FARRELL"S STORY IS TITLED " A LESSON IN HISTORY." IT IS EXCERPTED FROM HIS BOOK OF SHORT STORIES TITLED "THE LIFE ADVENTUROUS" PUBLISHED BY THE VANGUARD PRESS IN 1947. THE STORY INVOLVES A GROUP OF BOYS IN A CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL SOPHOMORE CLASS. THE CLASS INCLUDES DANNY O'NEILL. THE HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY TEACHER IS A PRIEST, FATHER KRANZ. AS HE QUIZZES THE BOYS ABOUT A SUBJECT THAT THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO READ AND LEARN OVER THE WEEK END, HE FINDS THAT MANY OF THEM DID NOT BOTHER TO READ THE LESSON AND INSTEAD THEY OFFER WISE CRACKS THAT ENRAGES THE PRIEST LEADING TO VARIOUS PUNISHMENTS AND PHYSICAL ABUSE. Size: 4 1/8 X 6 3/4".

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Title
DO YOU LIKE IT HERE?
Author
ROBERT BENARD - EDITOR
Publisher
DELL PUBLISHING CO. INC., NEW YORK, NY
Publication year
1989
Condition
Very Good
Dust jacket
NO DUST JACKET AS ISSUED
Binding
STIFF PAPER PRINTED WRAPPERS
Language
English
ISBN 10
0440204356
ISBN 13
9780440204350
Edition
First Edition.
Seller catalogs
FARRELL, FARRELL C, FARRELL G

Aah Rare Chicago

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Aah! Rare Chicago specializes in collections of Chicago authors such as David Mamet, Ben Hecht, Vincent Starrett,James T. Farrell, Eugene Field, George Ade, Studs Terkel and many others along with collections of Chicago Publishers such as Stone and Kimball and Way and Willams. We have hundreds of books about Chicago dating back to the early 1800s including Crime, Prostitution, Banking, Mayors, Architecture, Newspapers, Sports, the 1968 Democratic convention riots including posters and the subsequent conspiracy trial, Prefire imprints and Business. Much of the material is very difficult to find material such as in early in magazines and other ephemera.

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