People and places, books, nature, outward observations and inward speculations, all these make up the element s of twenty "occasional pieces" that relate the past with present, demonstrate the reach and grasp of the human mind, and reveal the astonishing range of one remarkable individual, William Golding.
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A Teacher's Life,
By Sirin (London, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces (Hardcover)
William Golding may profess to dislike teaching. But there is no doubt that the profession has stamped its mark on him, as a career, and as a writer, and as a family man. Golding's novels are full of people learning unexpectedly - tricks of survival, how to remove seaweed from a ship's keel - and he reveals here how his success as a novelist from the bestselling Lord of the Flies - aiming to free him from the classroom, actually meant that for ever more he was chained to the cult of pedagogy as he had to explain the book on tours for the rest of his life.This essay collection is full of unexpected charms from Golding who writes of his learning experiences at home from his parents and in his family garden, in Greece as he pursues the scene of the battle of Thermopolye, and some little jibes as he takes to task the miserable mass market culture of the American creative writing class. A great collection of essays from an old fashioned, avuncular, British man of letters for those who like their storytelling neat, and full cask.
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