Why Shoot the Teacher is a caustic, amiable, and unflinchingly honest account of one young man's first collision with reality - an ill paid teaching assignment in an isolated country school during the Great Depression. The young man is Max Braithwaite, now one of this country's most successful authors and freelance writers. The story he has to tell is riotous, grim, candid and infinitely entertaining. This is a Braithwaite at his vintage best and the humor that earned him the 1972 Leacock Memorial Metal is here in rich abundance. Here, too, is the de-humanizing desolation of the "Dirty Thirties" on the Saskatchewan Praries, the ordeal of youth among a populace bereft of pity and charity, and the human compassion that adds warmth and poignancy to Braithwaite'srecollections.
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By Jane Eliason (Eugene,, OR. United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Why Shoot the Teacher (Paperback)
When I lived in Canada's prairie provinces for two years, I was privy to the most wonderful "Canadiana," available in any local bookstore. I became fascinated with the style and beauty of Canadian authors. They spoke of true life experiences from a different perspective than that to which I had been exposed. The story of a young man---a teacher---who was assigned to work in a remote, one-room school, where the teacher was responsible for keeping track of the bounty tails of spring prairie dogs, was a fascinating experience for anyone who ever was or envisioned being a teacher! Highly recommended.
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