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S'està carregant… Ms. Hempel Chronicles (2008 original; edició 2008)de Sarah Shun-lien Bynum (Autor)
Informació de l'obraMs. Hempel Chronicles de Sarah Shun-lien Bynum (2008)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. This quirky story collection came as something of an antidote to Franzen's compelling but ugly "Freedom." Ms. Hempel, while irritating at times, does provide an accurately loving portrait of the quirks of her 7th graders (and even later of one former student as an adult). I loved her depiction of Harriet Reznick in "Talent." Occasionally, there will be a disarming or funny description: "The air! It delighted her, it was brisk and wood-smoky; it smelled the way early music sounded: thin, feverish, slightly out of tune." (p.112) Of a now adult former student, we learn: "But there was something in the pertness of her looks, or maybe it was her manner, that struck Ms. Hempel as uncanny, antiquated, as if Sophie were a resuscitated bobby-soxer with a little bit of freezer burn around the edges." (p.177) Of her time with 7th-graders:"This was a feeling that Ms. Hempel couldn't shake: a conviction that she spent her days among people at the age when they were most purely themselves. How could she not be depleted when she came home, having been exposed for hours, without protection, to all of those thrumming, radiant selves?" (p. 184) Overall, I enjoyed this uneven stories. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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Ms. Beatrice Hempel, teacher of seventh grade, is new--new to teaching, new to the school, newly engaged, and newly bereft of her idiosyncratic father. Grappling awkwardly with her newness, she struggles to figure out what is expected of her in life and at work. Is it acceptable to introduce swear words into the English curriculum, enlist students to write their own report cards, or bring up personal experiences while teaching a sex-education class? Sarah Shun-lien Bynum finds characters at their most vulnerable, then explores those precarious moments in sharp, graceful prose. From this most innovative of young writers comes another journey down the rabbit hole to the wonderland of middle school, memory, daydreaming, and the extraordinary business of growing up. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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