From Wentworth Books, Pittsfield, MA, U.S.A.
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About this Item
1964. First Edition. Large 8vo. 340 pp. Ex libris stickers to FFEP and past marks to rear endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket Good with staining to spine and rear. Beige cloth boards with title in purple and orange to spine. Heavy wear to edges. Foxing to page edges but not interior. Still Good condition on this classic. Kaufman's witty and insightful telling of life as an urban high school teacher.Sylvia Barrett arrives at New York City s Calvin Coolidge High fresh from earning literature degrees at Hunter College and eager to shape young minds. Instead she encounters broken windows, a lack of supplies, a stifling bureaucracy, and students with no interest in Chaucer. Her bumpy yet ultimately rewarding journey is narrated through an extraordinary collection of correspondence sternly worded yet nonsensical administrative memos, furtive notes of wisdom from teacher to teacher, polio consent slips, and student homework assignments that unwittingly speak from the heart. An instant bestseller when it was first published in 1964, Up the Down Staircase remains as poignant, devastating, laugh-out-loud funny, and relevant today as ever. It timelessly depicts a beleaguered public school system redeemed by teachers who love to teach and students who long to be recognized. Seller Inventory # 588
Bibliographic Details
Title: Up The Down Staircase
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Publication Date: 1964
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Edition: 1st Edition
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